Release Notes

Version 2.3.0, Not Yet Released

Add the SHACAL2 block cipher, including optimizations using SIMD and SHA-NI instructions. (GH #1151)
Add the ARIA block cipher (GH #1004 and #1157)
Add support for the ARMv8 AES instructions (GH #1182 and #1146)
Add support for the ARMv8 PMULL instruction (GH #1181 and #842)
Optimized the CMAC polynomial doubling operation, and removed a small timing channel due to a conditional operation.
Added support for the ECDHE_PSK AEAD TLS ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-psk-aead-05.
Extend "Raw" signature padding (which allows signing a hash computed externally) to optionally take a hash function name. In this case, it will be verified that the input matches the expected hash size. This also will control the hash algorithm used for RFC 6979 deterministic nonces; previously SHA-512 was always used for RFC 6979 nonces with "Raw". (GH #1153)
The advertised FFI API version has increased. This should have happened already in 2.2 but was neglected. The botan_ffi_supports_api call will return true for either the current or older versions of the API version since no backwards incompatible changes have occurred.
Add new C89 API functions botan_hex_decode, botan_base64_encode, and botan_base64_decode.
Add new C89 API functions botan_privkey_load_dh, botan_pubkey_load_dh, and botan_privkey_create_dh (GH #1155)
Add is_passhash9_alg_supported (GH #1154)
The power_mod function now supports negative bases (GH #1179 #1168)
Add a new command line utility for examining TLS client hellos.
Added a new target for LLVM bitcode (GH #1169)
Improve support for Windows Phone (GH #1180 #796 #794)
Add new command line options --rng-type=drbg and --drbg-seed which allow running commands with a deterministic RNG. (GH #1169)
Fix a number of warnings seen under Visual C++ (GH #1171 #795)
Workaround a GCC 7 bug that caused miscompilation of the GOST-34.11 hash function on x86-32. (GH #882 #1148)
Fix a bug in SIMD_4x32 which affected little-endian PowerPC processors. This would cause test failures for Serpent, among other problems.
Fix Altivec runtime detection, which was broken starting in Botan 2.1.0
Silence a Clang warning in create_private_key (GH #1150)
The fuzzers have been better integrated with the main build. See the handbook for details. (GH #1158)
The Travis CI build is now run via a Python script. This makes it easier to replicate the behavior of the CI build locally. Also a number of changes were made to improve the turnaround time of CI builds. (GH #1162)
Fix a bug in FFI tests that caused the test files not to be found when using --data-dir option (GH #1149)

Version 2.2.0, 2017-08-07

Add the Ed25519 signature scheme (GH #1066)
The format of x25519 keys, which previously used a non-standard encoding, has changed to match the upcoming IETF specification. (GH #1076)
Add the SM2 signature scheme (GH #1082)
Add the SM2 public key encryption scheme (GH #1142)
Add the SM3 hash function (GH #996)
Add the Streebog (GOST R 34.11-2012) hash function (GH #1114)
Add the SM4 block cipher (GH #1080)
Add the PGP S2K algorithm (GH #1060)
Add SP 800-56A KDF (GH #1040)
Add ChaCha_RNG which is a very fast and completely non-standard random bit generator (GH #1137)
Add support for SHA-1 and SHA-2 instructions added in Intel Goldmont (GH #826)
Add support for SHA-1 and SHA-2 instructions added in ARMv8 (GH #844)
Add support for HOTP (RFC 4226) and TOTP (RFC 6238) one-time-password algorithms (GH #1054)
Fix a bug that caused secure_allocator to not fully zeroize blocks when sizeof(T) was greater than 1.
Add HashFunction::copy_state which allows efficiently computing the hash of several messages with a common prefix (GH #1056 #1037)
ECC keys now encode their parameters using an OID instead of a literal encoding of the domain parameters. This will lead to smaller public and private keys in most instances. (GH #1093)
The OpenSSL backend now supports the 1.1.0 API (GH #1056)
Add a preliminary provider using BearSSL, currently EC and hashes supported (GH #1094)
Fix a bug in certificate path length checking that could cause valid chains to be rejected. (GH #1053)
It is possible for CBC, CFB, and stream ciphers to carry over the nonce from the previous message, which is needed by some applications. This worked in 1.10 but broke in 2.0. (GH #1044 fixing GH #864)
Avoid recursion in BER_Decoder::get_next_object which could cause stack exhaustion. (GH #989)
Fix missing flush in DataSink_Stream::end_msg. (GH #972 fixing GH #972)
Allow to seek in the big endian counter mode of operation (GH #999)
Support loading ElGamal keys through FFI interface (GH #1008)
Support Windows sockets in http_util (allowing OCSP checks on Windows), as well as in the TLS command line utils (GH #1138).
The --destdir flag to configure.py has been removed. Instead use the DESTDIR environment variable at install time. This change was done to more closely match how autoconf handles this case. (GH #1139 #1111 #997 #996).
Many changes to configure.py and botan2.py to make them pylint clean (GH #1041 #1002 #984)
Add command line utils hmac (GH #1001), encryption (GH #359), hex_enc, and hex_dec.
Fix an error in sign_cert command line util, which ignored the --ca-key-pass option. (GH #1106)
The speed util can now benchmark multiple buffer sizes (GH #1084)
Fix return value of FFI botan_bcrypt_is_valid (GH #1033)
Support generating RSA keys using OpenSSL (GH #1035)
Add new FFI functions botan_hash_block_size (GH #1036), botan_hash_copy_state (GH #1059), botan_scrub_mem
Add support for RFC 3394 keywrap through FFI (GH #1135)
Support AES-CBC ciphers via OpenSSL (GH #1022)
Add function to return certificates included in OCSP response (GH #1123)
Complete wildcard handling for X.509 certificates (GH #1017)
Add some missing functions to TLS::Text_Policy (GH #1023)
It was previously possible to use --single-amalgamation-file without --amalgamation, though it did not do anything useful. Now --single-amalgamation-file requires --amalgamation also be set on the command line.

Version 2.1.0, 2017-04-04

Fix incorrect truncation in Bcrypt. Passwords in length between 56 and 72 characters were truncated at 56 characters. Found and reported by Solar Designer. (CVE-2017-7252) (GH #938)
Fix a bug in X509 DN string comparisons that could result in out of bound reads. This could result in information leakage, denial of service, or potentially incorrect certificate validation results. Found independently by Cisco Talos team and OSS-Fuzz. (CVE-2017-2801)
Correct minimum work factor for Bcrypt password hashes. All other implementations require the work factor be at least 4. Previously Botan simply required it be greater than zero. (GH #938)
Converge on a single side channel silent EC blinded multiply algorithm. Uses Montgomery ladder with order/2 bits scalar blinding and point randomization now by default. (GH #893)
Add ability to search for certificates using the SHA-256 of the distinguished name. (GH #900)
Support a 0-length IV in ChaCha stream cipher. Such an IV is treated identically to an 8-byte IV of all zeros.
Add new interfaces to the C API including multiple precision integers, key validity tests, block ciphers, and extracting algorithm specific key paramters (such as the modulus and public exponent from RSA public keys). GH #899 #944 #946 #961 #964
The PKCS11 module did not require any external dependencies, so it has been enabled by default. The --with-pkcs11 and --without-pkcs11 flags to configure.py have been removed. PKCS11 can still be disabled using --disable-modules=pkcs11 (GH #837)
Add OS::run_cpu_instruction_probe for runtime probing of ISA extensions. Supporting this requires system-specific techniques, currently Windows SEH and Unix signal handling are supported.
Add support for ARM NEON in the SIMD_4x32 type
Add support for ARM CPU feature detection using getauxval (GH #843)
Previously Botan forbid any use of times past 2037 to avoid Y2038 issues. Now this restriction is only in place on systems which have a 32-bit time_t. (GH #933 fixing #917)
Add generic type decoder function to BER decoder (GH #897)
Fix portability or build problems affecting Sun Studio compiler (GH #846), Solaris, ppc64le, DragonflyBSD (GH #887)
Add --with-external-libdir to configure.py (GH #857 fixing #19 #767)
Add OS::get_high_resolution_clock which returns the best resolution clock available on the system.
Change OS::get_processor_timestamp to return 0 if no hardware cycle counter is available. Previously it silently fell back on some other clock type.
Report cycles/byte in the output of botan speed.
Add speed tests for modular exponentiations and ECC scalar multiplies.
Avoid using IP address for SNI in tls_client. (GH #942)
Add command line util timing_test which enables running timing-based side channel analysis of TLS CBC decryption, ECC scalar multiplies, OAEP decoding, and other operations which are prone to providing an oracle via side channel. This replaces the standalone timing test suite added in 1.11.34, which has been removed.
Various cleanups and refactorings (GH #965)
Add wrapper of C++14 make_unique (GH #974)
Fix pkg-config output when --build-dir was used (GH #936)
Make it possible to disable -fstack-protector using a build-time flag. GH #863
Add tests for TLS DSA ciphersuites, more Noekeon tests, others.
Avoid a GCC warning that triggered on the public key types (GH #849)
Fix various warnings flagged by pylint and pyflakes linters in configure.py and botan.py (GH #832 #836 #839 #962 #975)
Improve support for OpenBSD including using getentropy (GH #954) for PRNG seeding, and arc4random to access system RNG (GH #953)
Add ability to build through CMake. As of now this is only supported for development rather than production builds. (GH #967)
Rename python wrapper to botan2.py (GH #847)
Change name constraint test to use a fixed reference time. Test certs have expired.
Increase Miller-Rabin iterations for DSA primes to match FIPS 186-4. (GH #881)
Fix possible ISO 9796-2 padding side channel, and add a missing length check (GH #891)
In command line utility, prefer the system RNG if it is available.

Version 1.10.16, 2017-04-04

Fix a bug in X509 DN string comparisons that could result in out of bound reads. This could result in information leakage, denial of service, or potentially incorrect certificate validation results. (CVE-2017-2801)
Avoid throwing during a destructor since this is undefined in C++11 and rarely a good idea. (GH #930)

Version 1.10.15, 2017-01-12

Fix a bug causing modular exponentiations done modulo even numbers to almost always be incorrect, unless the values were small. This bug is not known to affect any cryptographic operation in Botan. (GH #754)
Avoid use of C++11 std::to_string in some code added in 1.10.14 (GH #747 #834)

Version 2.0.1, 2017-01-09

Change an unintended behavior of 2.0.0, which named the include directory botan-2.0. Since future release of Botan-2 should be compatible with code written against old versions, there does not seem to be any reason to version the include directory with the minor number. (GH #830 #833)
Fix a bug which caused an error when building on Cygwin or other platforms where shared libraries are not supported. (GH #821)
Enable use of readdir on Cygwin, which allows the tests to run (GH #824)
Switch to readthedocs Sphinx theme by default (GH #822 #823)

Version 2.0.0, 2017-01-06

With this release the project adopts Semantic Versioning (GH #766)
Fix a longstanding bug in modular exponentiation which caused most exponentiations modulo an even number to have an incorrect result; such moduli occur only rarely in cryptographic contexts. (GH #754)
Fix a bug in BigInt multiply operation, introduced in 1.11.30, which could cause incorrect results. Found by OSS-Fuzz fuzzing the ressol function, where the bug manifested as an incorrect modular exponentiation. OSS-Fuzz bug #287
Fix a bug that meant the "ietf/modp/6144" and "ietf/modp/8192" discrete log groups used an incorrect value for the generator, specifically the value (p-1)/2 was used instead of the correct value of 2.
The DL_Group enum value X942_DH_PARAMETERS has been renamed ANSI_X9_42_DH_PARAMETERS to avoid a conflict with Windows headers (GH #482)
Change default PEM header for X942 DH to match OpenSSL. Either version is accepted on reading. (GH #818)
DL_Group strong generation previously set the generator to 2. However sometimes 2 generates the entire group mod p, rather than the subgroup mod q. This is invalid by X9.42 standard, and exposes incautious applications to small subgroup attacks. Now DL_Group uses the smallest g which is a quadratic residue. (GH #818)
Add iOS build target instead of piggybacking on OS X configuration. (GH #793)
Changes all Public_Key derived class ctors to take a std::vector instead of a secure_vector for the DER encoded public key bits. (GH #768)
Allow use of custom extensions when creating X.509 certificates (GH #744)
The default TLS policy now requires 2048 or larger DH groups by default.
Add BSI_TR_02102_2 TLS::Policy subclass representing BSI TR-02102-2 recomendations.
The default Path_Validation_Restrictions constructor has changed to require at least 110 bit signature strength. This means 1024 bit RSA certificates and also SHA-1 certificates are rejected by default. Both settings were already the default for certificate validation in TLS handshake, but this changes it for applications also.
Add ISO 9796-2 signature padding schemes DS2 and DS3. These schemes provide message recovery (part or all of the plaintext message can be recovered from the signature alone) and are used by some industry protocols. (GH #759)
Rewrite all the code that handles parsing CBC padding bytes to run without conditional jumps or loads. (GH #765 #728)
Fix deref of invalid memory location in TLS client when the server chooses a ciphersuite value larger than the largest TLS ciphersuite ID compiled into the table. This might conceivably cause a crash in rare circumstances, but does not seem to be further exploitable. (GH #758)
Rename Public_Key::x509_subject_public_key, which does not return a X.509 SubjectPublicKey, to public_key_bits. Add a new non-virtual function Public_Key::subject_public_key which does exactly that. (GH #685 #757)
Rename Private_Key::pkcs8_private_key, which does not return a PKCS#8 private key, to private_key_bits. Add a new non-virtual function Private_Key::private_key_info which does exactly that. (GH #685 #757)
The deprecated ECB Cipher_Mode class has been removed (GH #756)
The class SRP6_Authenticator_File (in srp6_files.h) was meant to parse GnuTLS SRP files. But it was completely untested, and it turns out due to several problems it was completely unable to parse any SRP file correctly. It has been removed, with a future replacement planned that can handle both flat files (in the actual SRP format) or using a SQL database.
Fix tests errors when write access to /dev/urandom is prohibited (GH #748)
Add more Diffie-Hellman tests (GH #790), tests for RSA blinding, others.
Add tls_ciphers command which prints the ciphersuites a client hello will contain, depending on the policy specified.
Prevent TLS from negotiating SHA-2 ciphersuites in TLS v1.0/v1.1. These ciphersuites are technically not defined except for v1.2, so disable them in older protocols. (GH #496)
Documentation: add project goals (GH #788) and side channel info (GH #787)

Version 1.11.34, 2016-11-28

Fix integer overflow during BER decoding, found by Falko Strenzke. This bug is not thought to be directly exploitable but upgrading ASAP is advised. (CVE-2016-9132)
Add post-quantum signature scheme XMSS. Provides either 128 or 256 bit (post-quantum) security, with small public and private keys, fast verification, and reasonably small signatures (2500 bytes for 128-bit security). Signature generation is very slow, on the order of seconds. And very importantly the signature scheme is stateful: each leaf index must only be used once, or all security is lost. In the appropriate system where signatures are rarely generated (such as code signing) XMSS makes an excellent choice. (GH #717 #736)
Add support for CECPQ1 TLS ciphersuites. These use a combination of x25519 ECDH and NewHope to provide post-quantum security. The ciphersuites are not IETF standard, but is compatible with BoringSSL. (GH #729)
Add support for client-side OCSP stapling to TLS. (GH #738)
Previously both public and private keys performed automatic self testing after generation or loading. However this often caused unexpected application performance problems, and so has been removed. Instead applications must call check_key explicitly. (GH #704)
Fix TLS session resumption bugs which caused resumption failures if an application used a single session cache for both TLS and DTLS. (GH #688)
Add SHAKE-128 and SHAKE-256 XOFs as hash functions supporting paramaterized output lengths.
Add MessageAuthenticationCode::start_msg interface, for MACs which require or can use a nonce (GH #691)
Add GMAC, a MAC based on GCM (GH #488 / #691)
Add ESP block cipher padding from RFC 4304. GH #724
Incompatible change to HKDF: previously the HKDF type in Botan was only the Expand half of HKDF. Now HKDF is the full Extract-then-Expand KDF, and HKDF_Extract and HKDF_Expand are available. If you previously used HKDF, you must switch to using HKDF_Expand. (GH #723)
Add Cipher_Mode::reset which resets message-specific state, allowing discarding state but allowing continued processing under the same key. (GH #552)
The ability to add OIDs at runtime has been removed. This additionally removes a global lock which was acquired on each OID lookup. (GH #706)
The default TLS policy now disables static RSA ciphersuites, all DSA ciphersuites, and the AES CCM-8 ciphersuites. Disabling static RSA by default protects servers from oracle attacks, as well as enforcing a forward secure ciphersuite. Some applications may be forced to re-enable RSA for interop reasons. DSA and CCM-8 are rarely used, and likely should not be negotiated outside of special circumstances.
The default TLS policy now prefers ChaCha20Poly1305 cipher over any AES mode.
The default TLS policy now orders ECC curve preferences in order by performance, with x25519 first, then P-256, then P-521, then the rest.
Add a BSD sockets version of the HTTP client code used for OCSP. GH #699
Export the public key workfactor functions (GH #734) and add tests for them.
HMAC_DRBG allows configuring maximum number of bytes before reseed check (GH #690)
Salsa20 now accepts a null IV as equivalent to an all-zero one (GH #697)
Optimize ECKCDSA verification (GH #700 #701 #702)
The deprecated RNGs HMAC_RNG and X9.31 RNG have been removed. Now the only userspace PRNG included in the library is HMAC_DRBG. (GH #692)
The entropy sources for EGD and BeOS, as well as the Unix entropy source which executed processes to get statistical data have been removed. (GH #692)
The openpgp module (which just implemented OpenPGP compatible base64 encoding and decoding, nothing else) has been removed.
Added new configure.py argument --optimize-for-size. Currently just sets the flag for code size optimizations with the compiler, but may have other effects in the future.
Fixed bug in Threaded_Fork causing incorrect computations (GH #695 #716)
Add DSA deterministic parameter generation test from FIPS 186-3.
Fix PKCS11_ECDSA_PrivateKey::check_key (GH #712)
Fixed problems running configure.py outside of the base directory
The BOTAN_ENTROPY_PROC_FS_PATH value in build.h was being ignored (GH #708)
Add speed tests for ECGDSA and ECKCDSA (GH #696)
Fix a crash in speed command for Salsa20 (GH #697)
Allow a custom ECC curve to be specified at build time, for application or system specific curves. (GH #636 #710)
Use NOMINMAX on Windows to avoid problems in amalgamation build. (GH #740)
Add support to output bakefiles with new configure.py option --with-bakefile. (GH #360 #720)
The function zero_mem has been renamed secure_scrub_memory
More tests for pipe/filter (GH #689 #693), AEADs (GH #552), KDF::name (GH #727),
Add a test suite for timing analysis for TLS CBC decryption, OAEP decryption, and PKCS #1 v1.5 decryption. These operations all have the feature that if an attacker can distinguish internal operations, such as through a variance in timing, they can use this oracle to decrypt arbitrary ciphertexts. GH #733
Add a test suite for testing and fuzzing with TLS-Attacker, a tool for analyzing TLS libraries. (https://github.com/RUB-NDS/TLS-Attacker)
Add a fuzzing framework. Supports fuzzing some APIs using AFL and libFuzzer.
Added documentation for PKCS #11 (GH #725)
The LibraryInitializer type is no longer needed and is now deprecated.
The license and news files were moved from doc to the top level directory. There should not be any other visible change (eg, to the installed version) as a result of this move.
Fixed some problems when running configure.py outside of the base directory, especially when using relative paths.
Add (back) the Perl XS wrapper and sqlite encryption code.

Version 1.10.14, 2016-11-28

NOTE WELL: Botan 1.10.x is supported for security patches only until 2017-12-31
Fix integer overflow during BER decoding, found by Falko Strenzke. This bug is not thought to be directly exploitable but upgrading ASAP is advised. (CVE-2016-9132)
Fix two cases where (in error situations) an exception would be thrown from a destructor, causing a call to std::terminate.
When RC4 is disabled in the build, also prevent it from being included in the OpenSSL provider. (GH #638)

Version 1.11.33, 2016-10-26

Avoid side channel during OAEP decryption. (CVE-2016-8871)
A countermeasure for the Lucky13 timing attack against CBC-based TLS ciphersuites has been added. (GH #675)
Added X25519-based key exchange for TLS (GH #673)
Add Certificate_Store_In_SQL which supports storing certs, keys, and revocation information in a SQL database. Subclass Certificate_Store_In_SQLite specializes with support for SQLite3 databases. (GH #631)
The Certificate_Store interface has been changed to deal with std::shared_ptrs instead of raw pointers (GH #471 #631)
Add support for official SHA-3. Keccak-1600 was already supported but used different padding from FIPS 202. (GH #669)
Add SHAKE-128 based stream cipher. (GH #669)
NewHope key exchange now supports the SHA-256/AES-128-CTR scheme used by BoringSSL in addition to the SHA-3/SHAKE-128 parameters used by the reference implementation. (GH #669)
Add support for the TLS Supported Point Formats Extension from RFC 4492. Adds TLS::Policy::use_ecc_point_compression policy option. If supported on both sides, ECC points can be sent in compressed format which saves a few bytes during the handshake. (GH #645)
Fix entropy source selection bug on Windows, which caused the CryptoAPI entropy source to be not available under its normal name "win32_cryptoapi" but instead "dev_random". GH #644
Accept read-only access to /dev/urandom. System_RNG previously required read-write access, to allow applications to provide inputs to the system PRNG. But local security policies might only allow read-only access, as is the case with Ubuntu's AppArmor profile for applications in the Snappy binary format. If opening read/write fails, System_RNG silently backs down to read-only, in which case calls to add_entropy on that object will fail. (GH #647 #648)
Fix use of Win32 CryptoAPI RNG as an entropy source, which was accidentally disabled due to empty list of acceptable providers being specified. Typically the library would fall back to gathering entropy from OS functions returning statistical information, but if this functionality was disabled in the build a PRNG_Unseeded exception would result. (GH #655)
Add support for building the library as part of the IncludeOS unikernel. This included making filesystem and threading support optional. (GH #665)
Added ISA annotations so that with GCC (all supported versions) and Clang (since 3.7) it is no longer required to compile amalgamation files with ABI specific flags such as -maes. (GH #665)
Internal cleanups to TLS CBC record handling. TLS CBC ciphersuites can now be disabled by disabling tls_cbc module. (GH #642 #659)
Internal cleanups to the object lookup code eliminates most global locks and all use of static initializers (GH #668 #465)
Avoid static_assert triggering under MSVC debug builds (GH #646)
The antique PBKDF1 password hashing scheme is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. It was only used to support the equally ancient PBES1 private key encryption scheme, which was removed in 1.11.8.
Added MSVC debug/checked iterator builds (GH #666 #667)
Added Linux ppc64le cross compile target to Travis CI (GH #654)
If RC4 is disabled, also disable it coming from the OpenSSL provider (GH #641)
Add TLS message parsing tests (GH #640)
Updated BSI policy to prohibit DES, HKDF, HMAC_RNG (GH #649)
Documentation improvements (GH #660 #662 #663 #670)

Version 1.11.32, 2016-09-28

Add support for the NewHope Ring-LWE key encapsulation algorithm. This scheme provides an estimated ~200 bit security level against a quantum attacker while also being very fast and requiring only modest message sizes of 1824 and 2048 bytes for initiator and responder, resp. This version is tested as having bit-for-bit identical output as the reference implementation by the authors.

Be warned that NewHope is still a very new scheme and may yet fall to analysis. For best assurance, NewHope should be used only in combination with another key exchange mechanism, such as ECDH.
New TLS callbacks API. Instead of numerous std::function callbacks, the application passes an object implementing the TLS::Callbacks interface, which has virtual functions matching the previous callbacks (plus some extras). Full source compatability with previous versions is maintained for now, but the old interface is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. The manual has been updated to reflect the changes. (GH #457 and #567)
Add support for TLS Encrypt-then-MAC extension (GH #492 and #578), which fixes the known issues in the TLS CBC-HMAC construction.
The format of the TLS session struct has changed (to support EtM), so old TLS session caches will be invalidated.
How the library presents optimized algorithm implementations has changed. For example with the algorithm AES-128, previously there were three BlockCipher classes AES_128, AES_128_SSSE3, and AES_128_NI which used (resp) a table-based implementation vulnerable to side channels, a constant time version using SSSE3 SIMD extensions on modern x86, and x86 AES-NI instructions. Using the correct version at runtime required using BlockCipher::create. Now, only the class AES_128 is presented, and the best available version is always used based on CPUID checks. The tests have been extended to selectively disable CPUID bits to ensure all available versions are tested. (GH #477 #623)

Removes API classes AES_128_NI, AES_192_NI, AES_256_NI, AES_128_SSSE3, AES_192_SSSE3 AES_256_SSSE3, IDEA_SSE2, Noekeon_SIMD, Serpent_SIMD, Threefish_512_AVX2, SHA_160_SSE2
The deprecated algorithms Rabin-Williams, Nyberg-Rueppel, MARS, RC2, RC5, RC6, SAFER-SK, TEA, MD2, HAS-160, and RIPEMD-128 have been removed. (GH #580)
A new Cipher_Mode interface process allows encryption/decryption of buffers without requiring copying into secure_vector first. (GH #516)
Fix verification of self-issued certificates (GH #634)
SSE2 optimizations for ChaCha, 60% faster on both Westmere and Skylake (GH #616)
The HMAC_RNG constructor added in 1.11.31 that took both an RNG and an entropy source list ignored the entropy sources.
The configure option --via-amalgamation was renamed to --amalgamation. The configure option --gen-amalgamation was removed. It did generate amalgamations but build Botan without amalgamation. Users should migrate to --amalgamation. (GH #621)
DH keys did not automatically self-test after being generated, contrary to the current behavior for other key types.
Add tests for TLS 1.2 PRF (GH #628)

Version 1.11.31, 2016-08-30

Fix undefined behavior in Curve25519 on platforms without a native 128-bit integer type. This was known to produce incorrect results on 32-bit ARM under Clang. GH #532 (CVE-2016-6878)
If X509_Certificate::allowed_usage was called with more than one Key_Usage set in the enum value, the function would return true if any of the allowed usages were set, instead of if all of the allowed usages are set. GH #591 (CVE-2016-6879)
Incompatible changes in DLIES: Previously the input to the KDF was the concatenation of the (ephemeral) public key and the secret value derived by the key agreement operation. Now the input is only the secret value obtained by the key agreement operation. That's how it is specified in the original paper "DHIES: An encryption scheme based on Diffie-Hellman Problem" or in BSI technical guideline TR-02102-1 for example. In addition to the already present XOR-encrypion/decryption mode it's now possible to use DLIES with a block cipher. Furthermore the order of the output was changed from {public key, tag, ciphertext} to {public key, ciphertext, tag}. Both modes are compatible with BouncyCastle.
Add initial PKCS #11 support (GH #507). Currently includes a low level wrapper to all of PKCS #11 (p11.h) and high level code for RSA and ECDSA signatures and hardware RNG access.
Add ECIES encryption scheme, compatible with BouncyCastle (GH #483)
Add ECKCDSA signature algorithm (GH #504)
Add KDF1 from ISO 18033 (GH #483)
Add FRP256v1 curve (GH #551)
Changes for userspace PRNGs HMAC_DRBG and HMAC_RNG (GH #520 and #593)

These RNGs now derive from Stateful_RNG which handles issues like periodic reseeding and (on Unix) detecting use of fork. Previously these measures were included only in HMAC_RNG.

Stateful_RNG allows reseeding from another RNG and/or a specified set of entropy sources. For example it is possible to configure a HMAC_DRBG to reseed using a PKCS #11 token RNG, the CPU's RDSEED instruction, and the system RNG but disabling all other entropy polls.
AutoSeeded_RNG now uses NIST SP800-90a HMAC_DRBG(SHA-384). (GH #520)
On Windows and Unix systems, the system PRNG is used as the sole reseeding source for a default AutoSeeded_RNG, completely skipping the standard entropy polling code. New constructors allow specifying the reseed RNG and/or entropy sources. (GH #520)
The hres_timer entropy source module has been removed. Timestamp inputs to the RNG are now handled as additional_data inputs to HMAC_DRBG.
Add RDRAND_RNG which directly exposes the CPU RNG (GH #543)
Add PKCS #1 v1.5 id for SHA-512/256 (GH #554)
Add X509_Time::to_std_timepoint (GH #560)
Fix a bug in ANSI X9.23 padding mode, which returned one byte more than the given block size (GH #529).
Fix bug in SipHash::clear, which did not reset all state (GH #547)
Fixes for FreeBSD (GH #517) and OpenBSD (GH #523). The compiler defaults to Clang on FreeBSD now.
SonarQube static analysis integration (GH #592)
Switched Travis CI to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (GH #592)
Added ARM32, ARM64, PPC32, PPC64, and MinGW x86 cross compile targets to Travis CI (GH #608)
Clean up in TLS ciphersuite handling (GH #583)
Threefish-512 AVX2 optimization work (GH #581)
Remove build configuration host and timestamp from build.h This makes this header reproducible and allows using ccache's direct mode (GH #586 see also #587)
Prevent building for x86-64 with x86-32 compiler and the reverse (GH #585)
Avoid build problem on 32-bit userspace ARMv8 (GH #563)
Refactor of internal MP headers (GH #549)
Avoid MSVC C4100 warning (GH #525)
Change botan.exe to botan-cli.exe on Windows to workaround VC issue (GH #584)
More tests for RSA-KEM (GH #538), DH (GH #556), EME (GH #553), cipher mode padding (GH #529), CTS mode (GH #531), KDF1/ISO18033 (GH #537), OctetString (GH #545), OIDs (GH #546), parallel hash (GH #548), charset handling (GH #555), BigInt (GH #558), HMAC_DRBG (GH #598 #600)
New deprecations. See the full list in doc/deprecated.txt

The X9.31 and HMAC_RNG RNGs are deprecated. If you need a userspace PRNG, use HMAC_DRBG (or AutoSeeded_RNG which is HMAC_DRBG with defaults).

Support for getting entropy from EGD is deprecated, and will be removed in a future release. The developers believe that it is unlikely that any modern system requires EGD and so the code is now dead weight. If you rely on EGD support, you should contact the developers by email or GitHub ASAP.

The TLS ciphersuites using 3DES and SEED are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

ECB mode Cipher_Mode is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Support for BeOS/Haiku has not been tested in 5+ years and is in an unknown state. Unless reports are received of successful builds and use on this platform, support for BeOS/Haiku will be removed in a future release.

Version 1.11.30, 2016-06-19

In 1.11.23 a bug was introduced such that CBC-encrypted TLS packets containing no plaintext bytes at all were incorrectly rejected with a MAC failure. Records like this are used by OpenSSL in TLS 1.0 connections in order to randomize the IV.
A bug in GCM caused incorrect results if the 32-bit counter field overflowed. This bug has no implications on the security but affects interoperability.

With a 96-bit nonce, this could only occur if at least 2**32 128-bit blocks (64 GiB) were encrypted. This actually exceeds the maximum allowable length of a GCM plaintext; when messages longer than 2**32 - 2 blocks are encrypted, GCM loses its security properties.

In addition to 96-bit nonces, GCM also supports nonces of arbitrary length using a different method which hashes the provided nonce under the authentication key. When using such a nonce, the last 4 bytes of the resulting CTR input might be near the overflow boundary, with the probability of incorrect overflow increasing with longer messages. when encrypting 256 MiB of data under a random 128 bit nonce, an incorrect result would be produced about 1/256 of the time. With 1 MiB texts, the probability of error is reduced to 1/65536.

Since TLS uses GCM with 96 bit nonces and limits the length of any record to far less than 64 GiB, TLS GCM ciphersuites are not affected by this bug.

Reported by Juraj Somorovsky, described also in "Nonce-Disrespecting Adversaries: Practical Forgery Attacks on GCM in TLS" (https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/475.pdf)
Previously when generating a new self-signed certificate or PKCS #10 request, the subject DN was required to contain both common name (CN) and country (C) fields. These restrictions have been removed. GH #496
The Transform and Keyed_Transform interfaces has been removed. The two concrete implementations of these interfaces were Cipher_Mode and Compressor_Transform. The Cipher_Mode interface remains unchanged as the Transform and Keyed_Transform signatures have moved to it; no changes to Cipher_Mode usage should be necessary. Any uses of Transform& or Keyed_Transform& to refer to a cipher should be replaced by Cipher_Mode&. The compression algorithm interface has changed; the start function now takes the per-message compression ratio to use. Previously the compression level to use had to be set once, at creation time, and the required secure_vector argument to start was required to be empty. The new API is documented in compression.rst in the manual.
Add IETF versions of the ChaCha20Poly1305 TLS ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-chacha20-poly1305-04. The previously implemented (non-standard) ChaCha20Poly1305 ciphersuites from draft-agl-tls-chacha20poly1305 remain but are deprecated.
The OCB TLS ciphersuites have been updated to use the new nonce scheme from draft-zauner-tls-aes-ocb-04. This is incompatible with previous versions of the draft, and the ciphersuite numbers used for the (still experimental) OCB ciphersuites have changed.
Previously an unknown critical extension caused X.509 certificate parsing to fail; such a cert could not be created at all. Now parsing succeeds and the certificate validation fails with an error indicating an unknown critical extension. GH #469
X509_CRL previously had an option to cause it to ignore unknown critical extensions. This has been removed.
Added StreamCipher::seek allowing seeking to arbitrary position in the key stream. Currently only implemented for ChaCha. (GH #497)
Added support for ChaCha stream cipher with 8 or 12 rounds.
Add ECGDSA signature algorithm (GH #479)
Add support for label argument to KDFs (GH #495)
Add NIST SP800-108 and 56C KDFs (GH #481)
Support for Card Verifiable Certificates and the obsolete EMSA1_BSI signature padding scheme have been removed. (GH #487)
A bug in the IETF version of ChaCha20Poly1305 (with 96 bit nonces) caused incorrect computation when the plaintext or AAD was exactly a multiple of 16 bytes.
Fix return type of TLS_Reader::get_u32bit, which was truncated to 16 bits. This only affected decoding of session ticket lifetimes. GH #478
Fix OS X dylib naming problem (GH #468 #467)
Fix bcrypt function under Python 3 (GH #461)
The unix_procs entropy source is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. This entropy source attempts to get entropy by running Unix programs like arp, netstat, and dmesg which produce information which may be difficult for a remote attacker to guess. This exists primarily as a last-ditch for Unix systems without /dev/random. But at this point such systems effectively no longer exist, and the use of fork and exec by the library complicates effective application sandboxing.
Changes to avoid implicit cast warnings in Visual C++ (GH #484)

Version 1.10.13, 2016-04-23

Use constant time modular inverse algorithm to avoid possible side channel attack against ECDSA (CVE-2016-2849)
Use constant time PKCS #1 unpadding to avoid possible side channel attack against RSA decryption (CVE-2015-7827)
Avoid a compilation problem in OpenSSL engine when ECDSA was disabled. Gentoo bug 542010

Version 1.11.29, 2016-03-20

CVE-2016-2849 DSA and ECDSA used a modular inverse function which had input dependent loops. It is possible a side channel attack on this function could be used to recover sufficient information about the nonce k to mount a lattice attack and recover the private key. Found by Sean Devlin.
CVE-2016-2850 The TLS client did not check that the signature algorithm or ECC curve a v1.2 server used was actually acceptable by the policy. This would allow a server who ignored the preferences indicated in the client to use a weak algorithm, and may allow MITM attacks by an attacker who can break MD5 signatures or 160 bit ECC in real time. The server similarly failed to check on the hash a client used during client certificate authentication.
Reject empty TLS records at the record processing layer since such a record is not valid regardless of the record type. Later checks already correctly rejected empty records, but during processing such a record, a pointer to the end of the vector was created, causing a assertion failure under checked iterators. Found by Juraj Somorovsky.
Add PK_Decryptor::decrypt_or_random which allows an application to atomically (in constant time) check that a decrypted ciphertext has the expected length and/or apply content checks on the result. This is used by the TLS server for decrypting PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA ciphertexts. Previously the server used a implementation which was potentially vulnerable to side channels.
Add support for processing X.509 name constraint extension during path validation. GH #454
Add X509_Certificate::v3_extensions which allows retreiving the raw binary of all certificate extensions, including those which are not known to the library. This allows processing of custom extensions. GH #437
Add support for module policies which are a preconfigured set of acceptable or prohibited modules. A policy based on BSI TR-02102-1 is included. GH #439 #446
Support for the deprecated TLS heartbeat extension has been removed.
Support for the deprecated TLS minimum fragment length extension has been removed.
SRP6 support is now optional in TLS
Support for negotiating MD5 and SHA-224 signatures in TLS v1.2 has been removed. MD5 signatures are demonstratably insecure in TLS, SHA-224 is rarely used.
Support for negotiating ECC curves secp160r1, secp160r2, secp160k1, secp192k1, secp192r1 (P-192), secp224k1, secp224r1 (P-224), and secp256k1 have been removed from the TLS implementation. All were already disabled in the default policy.
HMAC_RNG now has an explicit check for fork using pid comparisons. It also includes the pid and system and CPU clocks into the PRF computation to help reduce the risk of pid wraparound. Even so, applications using fork and userspace RNGs should explicitly reseed all such RNGs whenever possible.
Deprecation warning: support for DSA certificates in TLS is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
Deprecation warning: in addition to the algorithms deprecated in 1.11.26, the following algorithms are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release: Rabin-Williams signatures, TEA, XTEA.
Deprecation warning: the library has a number of compiled in MODP and ECC DL parameters. All MODP parameter sets under 2048 bits and all ECC parameters under 256 bits are deprecated and will be removed in a future release. This includes the MODP groups "modp/ietf/1024", "modp/srp/1024", "modp/ietf/1536", "modp/srp/1536" and the ECC groups "secp160k1", "secp160r1", "secp160r2", "secp192k1", "secp192r1", "secp224k1", "secp224r1", "brainpool160r1", "brainpool192r1", "brainpool224r1", "x962_p192v2", "x962_p192v3", "x962_p239v1", "x962_p239v2" and "x962_p239v3". Additionally all compiled in DSA parameter sets ("dsa/jce/1024", "dsa/botan/2048", and "dsa/botan/3072") are also deprecated.
RDSEED/RDRAND polling now retries if the operation fails. GH #373
Fix various minor bugs found by static analysis with PVS-Studio (GH#421), Clang analyzer (GH #441), cppcheck (GH #444, #445), and Coverity.
Add --with-valgrind configure option to enable building against the valgrind client API. This currently enables checking of const time operations using memcheck.
Fix remaining Wshadow warnings. Enable Wshadow in build. GH #427
Use noexcept in VS 2015 GH #429
On Windows allow the user to explicitly request symlinks be used as part of the build. Likely only useful for someone working on the library itself. GH #430
Remove use of TickCount64 introduced in 1.11.27 which caused problem with downstream distributors/users building XP compatiable binaries which is still an option even in VS 2015
MCEIES requires KDF1 at runtime but did not require it be enabled in the build. GH #369
Small optimizations to Keccak hash
Support for locking allocator on Windows using VirtualLock. GH #450

Version 1.8.15, 2016-02-13

NOTE WELL: Botan 1.8 is not supported for security issues anymore. Moving to 1.10 or 1.11 is certainly recommended.
Fix CVE-2014-9742: Insufficient randomness in Miller-Rabin primality check
Fix CVE-2016-2194: Infinite loop in modulur square root algorithm
Fix CVE-2015-5726: Crash in BER decoder
Fix CVE-2015-5727: Excess memory allocation in BER decoder Note: Unlike the fix in 1.10 which checks that the source actually contains enough data to satisfy the read before allocating the memory, 1.8.15 simply rejects all ASN.1 blocks larger than 1 MiB. This simpler check avoids the problem without breaking ABI.

Version 1.10.12, 2016-02-03

In 1.10.11, the check in PointGFp intended to check the affine y argument actually checked the affine x again. Reported by Remi Gacogne

The CVE-2016-2195 overflow is not exploitable in 1.10.11 due to an additional check in the multiplication function itself which was also added in that release, so there are no security implications from the missed check. However to avoid confusion the change was pushed in a new release immediately.

The 1.10.11 release notes incorrectly identified CVE-2016-2195 as CVE-2016-2915

Version 1.10.11, 2016-02-01

Resolve heap overflow in ECC point decoding. CVE-2016-2195
Resolve infinite loop in modular square root algorithm. CVE-2016-2194
Correct BigInt::to_u32bit to not fail on integers of exactly 32 bits. GH #239

Version 1.11.28, 2016-02-01

One of the checks added while addressing CVE-2016-2195 was incorrect and could cause needless assertion failures.

Version 1.11.27, 2016-02-01

SECURITY: Avoid heap overflow in ECC point decoding. This could likely result in remote code execution. CVE-2016-2195
SECURITY: Avoid one word heap overflow in P-521 reduction function. This could potentially lead to remote code execution or other attack. CVE-2016-2196.
SECURITY: Avoid infinite or near-infinite loop during modular square root algorithm with invalid inputs. CVE-2016-2194
Add Blake2b hash function. GH #413
Use m_ prefix on all member variables. GH #398 and #407
Use final qualifier on many classes. GH #408
Use noreturn attribute on assertion failure function to assist static analysis. GH #403
Use TickCount64 and MemoryStatusEx in the Windows entropy source. Note these calls are only available in Vista/Server 2008. No accomodations are made for XP or Server 2003, both of which are no longer patched by the vendor. GH #365

Version 1.11.26, 2016-01-04

Deprecation warnings: Nyberg-Rueppel signatures, MARS, RC2, RC5, RC6, SAFER, HAS-160, RIPEMD-128, MD2 and support for the TLS minimum fragment length extensions are all being considered for removal in a future release. If there is a compelling use case for keeping any of them in the library, please open a discussion ticket on GitHub.
Support for the TLS extended master secret extension (RFC 7627) has been added.
The format of serialized TLS sessions has changed to add a flag indicating support for the extended master secret flag, which is needed for proper handling of the extension.
Root all exceptions thrown by the library in the Botan::Exception class. Previously the library would in many cases throw std::runtime_error or std::invalid_argument exceptions which would make it hard to determine the source of the error in some cases.
The command line interface has been mostly rewritten. The syntax of many of the sub-programs has changed, and a number have been extended with new features and options.
Correct an error in PointGFp multiplication when multiplying a point by the scalar value 3. PointGFp::operator* would instead erronously compute it as if the scalar was 1 instead.
Enable RdRand entropy source on Windows/MSVC. GH #364
Add Intel's RdSeed as entropy source. GH #370
Add preliminary support for accessing TPM v1.2 devices. Currently random number generation, RSA key generation, and signing are supported. Tested using Trousers and an ST TPM
Add generalized interface for KEM (key encapsulation) techniques. Convert McEliece KEM to use it. The previous interfaces McEliece_KEM_Encryptor and McEliece_KEM_Decryptor have been removed. The new KEM interface now uses a KDF to hash the resulting keys; to get the same output as previously provided by McEliece_KEM_Encryptor, use "KDF1(SHA-512)" and request exactly 64 bytes.
Add support for RSA-KEM from ISO 18033-2
Add support for ECDH in the OpenSSL provider
Fix a bug in DataSource::discard_next() which could cause either an infinite loop or the discarding of an incorrect number of bytes. Reported on mailing list by Falko Strenzke.
Previously if BOTAN_TARGET_UNALIGNED_MEMORY_ACCESS_OK was defined, the code doing low level loads/stores would use pointer casts to access larger words out of a (potentially misaligned) byte array, rather than using byte-at-a-time accesses. However even on platforms such as x86 where this works, it triggers UBSan errors under Clang. Instead use memcpy, which the C standard says is usable for such purposes even with misaligned values. With recent GCC and Clang, the same code seems to be emitted for either approach.
Avoid calling memcpy, memset, or memmove with a length of zero to avoid undefined behavior, as calling these functions with an invalid or null pointer, even with a length of zero, is invalid. Often there are corner cases where this can occur, such as pointing to the very end of a buffer.
The function RandomNumberGenerator::gen_mask (added in 1.11.20) had undefined behavior when called with a bits value of 32 or higher, and was tested to behave in unpleasant ways (such as returning zero) when compiled by common compilers. This function was not being used anywhere in the library and rather than support something without a use case to justify it it seemed simpler to remove it. Undefined behavior found by Daniel Neus.
Support for using ctgrind for checking const time blocks has been replaced by calling the valgrind memcheck APIs directly. This allows const-time behavior to be tested without requiring a modified valgrind binary. Adding the appropriate calls requires defining BOTAN_HAS_VALGRIND in build.h. A binary compiled with this flag set can still run normally (though with some slight runtime overhead).
Export MGF1 function mgf1_mask GH #380
Work around a problem with some antivirus programs which causes the shutil.rmtree and os.makedirs Python calls to occasionally fail. The could prevent configure.py from running sucessfully on such systems. GH #353
Let configure.py run under CPython 2.6. GH #362

Version 1.11.25, 2015-12-07

In this release the test suite has been largely rewritten. Previously the tests had internally used several different test helper frameworks created or adopted over time, each of which was insufficient on its own for testing the entire library. These have been fully converged on a new framework which suffices for all of the tests. There should be no user-visible change as a result of this, except that the output format of botan-test has changed.
Improved side channel countermeasures for the table based AES implementation. The 4K T tables are computed (once) at runtime to avoid various cache based attacks which are possible due to shared VMM mappings of read only tables. Additionally every cache line of the table is read from prior to processing the block(s).
Support for the insecure ECC groups secp112r1, secp112r2, secp128r1, and secp128r2 has been removed.
The portable version of GCM has been changed to run using only constant time operations.
Work around a bug in MSVC 2013 std::mutex which on some Windows versions can result in a deadlock during static initialization. On Windows a CriticalSection is used instead. Analysis and patch from Matej Kenda (TopIT d.o.o.). GH #321
The OpenSSL implementation of RC4 would return the wrong value from name if leading bytes of the keystream had been skipped in the output.
Fixed the signature of the FFI function botan_pubkey_destroy, which took the wrong type and was not usable.
The TLS client would erronously reject any server key exchange packet smaller than 6 bytes. This prevented negotiating a plain PSK TLS ciphersuite with an empty identity hint. ECDHE_PSK and DHE_PSK suites were not affected.
Fixed a bug that would cause the TLS client to occasionally reject a valid server key exchange message as having an invalid signature. This only affected DHE and SRP ciphersuites.
Support for negotiating use of SHA-224 in TLS has been disabled in the default policy.
Added remove_all function to the TLS::Session_Manager interface
Avoid GCC warning in pedantic mode when including bigint.h GH #330

Version 1.11.24, 2015-11-04

When the bugs affecting X.509 path validation were fixed in 1.11.23, a check in Credentials_Manager::verify_certificate_chain was accidentally removed which caused path validation failures not to be signaled to the TLS layer. Thus in 1.11.23 certificate authentication in TLS is bypassed. Reported by Florent Le Coz in GH #324
Fixed an endian dependency in McEliece key generation which caused keys to be generated differently on big and little endian systems, even when using a deterministic PRNG with the same seed.
In configure,py, the flags for controlling use of debug, sanitizer, and converage information have been split out into individual options --with-debug-info, --with-sanitizers, and --with-coverage. These allow enabling more than one in a build in a controlled way. The --build-mode flag added in 1.11.17 has been removed.

Version 1.11.23, 2015-10-26

CVE-2015-7824: An information leak allowed padding oracle attacks against TLS CBC decryption. Found in a review by Sirrix AG and 3curity GmbH.
CVE-2015-7825: Validating a malformed certificate chain could cause an infinite loop. Found in a review by Sirrix AG and 3curity GmbH.
CVE-2015-7826: X.509 path validation violated RFC 6125 and would accept certificates which should not validate under those rules. In particular botan would accept wildcard certificates as matching in situations where it should not (for example it would erroneously accept *.example.com as a valid wildcard for foo.bar.example.com)
CVE-2015-7827: The routines for decoding PKCS #1 encryption and OAEP blocks have been rewritten to run without secret indexes or branches. These cryptographic operations are vulnerable to oracle attacks, including via side channels such as timing or cache-based analysis. In theory it would be possible to attack the previous implementations using such a side channel, which could allow an attacker to mount a plaintext recovery attack.

By writing the code such that it does not depend on secret inputs for branch or memory indexes, such a side channel would be much less likely to exist.

The OAEP code has previously made an attempt at constant time operation, but it used a construct which many compilers converted into a conditional jump.
Add support for using ctgrind (https://github.com/agl/ctgrind) to test that sections of code do not use secret inputs to decide branches or memory indexes. The testing relies on dynamic checking using valgrind.

So far PKCS #1 decoding, OAEP decoding, Montgomery reduction, IDEA, and Curve25519 have been notated and confirmed to be constant time on Linux/x86-64 when compiled by gcc.
Public key operations can now be used with specified providers by passing an additional parameter to the constructor of the PK operation.
OpenSSL RSA provider now supports signature creation and verification.
The blinding code used for RSA, Diffie-Hellman, ElGamal and Rabin-Williams now periodically reinitializes the sequence of blinding values instead of always deriving the next value by squaring the previous ones. The reinitializion interval can be controlled by the build.h parameter BOTAN_BLINDING_REINIT_INTERVAL.
A bug decoding DTLS client hellos prevented session resumption for succeeding.
DL_Group now prohibits creating a group smaller than 1024 bits.
Add System_RNG type. Previously the global system RNG was only accessible via system_rng which returned a reference to the object. However is at times useful to have a unique_ptr<RandomNumberGenerator> which will be either the system RNG or an AutoSeeded_RNG, depending on availability, which this additional type allows.
New command line tools dl_group and prime
The configure.py option --no-autoload is now also available under the more understandable name --minimized-build.
Note: 1.11.22 was briefly released on 2015-10-26. The only difference between the two was a fix for a compilation problem in the OpenSSL RSA code. As the 1.11.22 release had already been tagged it was simpler to immediately release 1.11.23 rather than redo the release.

Version 1.11.21, 2015-10-11

Add new methods for creating types such as BlockCiphers or HashFunctions, T::providers() returning list of provider for a type, and T::create() creating a new object of a specified provider. The functions in lookup.h forward to these new APIs. A change to the lookup system in 1.11.14 had caused problems with static libraries (GH #52). These problems have been fixed as part of these changes. GH #279
Fix loading McEliece public or private keys with PKCS::load_key / X509::load_key
Add mce command line tool for McEliece key generation and file encryption
Add Darwin_SecRandom entropy source which uses SecRandomCopyBytes API call for OS X and iOS, as this call is accessible even from a sandboxed application. GH #288
Add new HMAC_DRBG constructor taking a name for the MAC to use, rather than a pointer to an object.
The OCaml module is now a separate project at https://github.com/randombit/botan-ocaml
The encrypted sqlite database support in contrib has moved to https://github.com/randombit/botan-sqlite
The Perl XS module has been removed as it was no longer maintained.

Version 1.11.20, 2015-09-07

Additional countermeasures were added to ECC point multiplications including exponent blinding and randomization of the point representation to help protect against side channel attacks.
An ECDSA provider using OpenSSL has been added.
The ordering of algorithm priorities has been reversed. Previously 255 was the lowest priority and 0 was the highest priority. Now it is the reverse, with 0 being lowest priority and 255 being highest. The default priority for the base algorithms is 100. This only affects external providers or applications which directly set provider preferences.
On OS X, rename libs to avoid trailing version numbers, e.g. libbotan-1.11.dylib.19 -> libbotan-1.11.19.dylib. This was requested by the Homebrew project package audit. GH #241, #260
Enable use of CPUID interface with clang. GH #232
Add support for MSVC 2015 debug builds by satisfying C++ allocator requirements. SO 31802806, GH #236
Make X509_Time string parsing and to_u32bit() more strict to avoid integer overflows and other potentially dangerous misinterpretations. GH #240, #243
Remove all 'extern "C"' declarations from src/lib/math/mp/ because some of those did throw exceptions and thus cannot be C methods. GH #249
Fix build configuration for clang debug on Linux. GH #250
Fix zlib error when compressing an empty buffer. GH #265
Fix iOS builds by allowing multiple compiler flags with the same name. GH #266
Fix Solaris build issue caused by RLIMIT_MEMLOCK. GH #262

Version 1.11.19, 2015-08-03

SECURITY: The BER decoder would crash due to reading from offset 0 of an empty vector if it encountered a BIT STRING which did not contain any data at all. As the type requires a 1 byte field this is not valid BER but could occur in malformed data. Found with afl. CVE-2015-5726
SECURITY: The BER decoder would allocate a fairly arbitrary amount of memory in a length field, even if there was no chance the read request would succeed. This might cause the process to run out of memory or invoke the OOM killer. Found with afl. CVE-2015-5727
The TLS heartbeat extension is deprecated and unless strong arguments are raised in its favor it will be removed in a future release. Comment at randombit#187
The x86-32 assembly versions of MD4, MD5, SHA-1, and Serpent and the x86-64 version of SHA-1 have been removed. With compilers from this decade the C++ versions are significantly faster. The SSE2 versions of SHA-1 and Serpent remain, as they are still the fastest version for processors with SIMD extensions. GH #216
BigInt::to_u32bit would fail if the value was exactly 32 bits. GH #220
Botan is now fully compaitible with _GLIBCXX_DEBUG. GH #73
BigInt::random_integer distribution was not uniform. GH #108
Added unit testing framework Catch. GH #169
Fix make install. GH #181, #186
Public header fs.h moved to internal/filesystem.h. Added filesystem support for MSVC 2013 when boost is not available, allowing tests to run on those systems. GH #198, #199
Added os "android" and fix Android compilation issues. GH #203
Drop support for Python 2.6 for all Botan Python scripts. GH #217

Version 1.10.10, 2015-08-03

SECURITY: The BER decoder would crash due to reading from offset 0 of an empty vector if it encountered a BIT STRING which did not contain any data at all. As the type requires a 1 byte field this is not valid BER but could occur in malformed data. Found with afl. CVE-2015-5726
SECURITY: The BER decoder would allocate a fairly arbitrary amount of memory in a length field, even if there was no chance the read request would succeed. This might cause the process to run out of memory or invoke the OOM killer. Found with afl. CVE-2015-5727
Due to an ABI incompatible (though not API incompatible) change in this release, the version number of the shared object has been increased.
The default TLS policy no longer allows RC4.
Fix a signed integer overflow in Blue Midnight Wish that may cause incorrect computations or undefined behavior.

Version 1.11.18, 2015-07-05

In this release Botan has switched VCS from monotone to git, and is now hosted on github at https://github.com/randombit/botan
The TLS client called std::set_difference on an invalid iterator pair. This could potentially lead to a crash depending on the compiler and STL implementation. It also would trigger assertion failures when using checked iterators. GH #73
Remove code constructs which triggered errors under MSVC and GCC debug iterators. The primary of these was an idiom of &vec[x] to create a pointer offset of a std::vector. This failed when x was set equal to vec.size() to create the one-past-the-end address. The pointer in question was never dereferenced, but it triggered the iterator debugging checks which prevented using these valuble analysis tools. From Simon Warta and Daniel Seither. GH #125
Several incorrect or missing module dependencies have been fixed. These often prevented a successful build of a minimized amalgamation when only a small set of algorithms were specified. GH #71 From Simon Warta.
Add an initial binding to OCaml. Currently only hashes, RNGs, and bcrypt are supported.
The default key size generated by the keygen tool has increased to 2048 bits. From Rene Korthaus.
The Botan_types namespace, which contained using declarations for (just) Botan::byte and Botan::u32bit, has been removed. Any use should be replaced by using declarations for those types directly.

Version 1.11.17, 2015-06-18

All support for the insecure RC4 stream cipher has been removed from the TLS implementation.
Fix decoding of TLS maximum fragment length. Regardless of what value was actually negotiated, TLS would treat it as a negotiated limit of 4096.
Fix the configure.py flag --disable-aes-ni which did nothing of the sort.
Fixed nmake clean target. GitHub #104
Correct buffering logic in Compression_Filter. GitHub #93 and #95

Version 1.11.16, 2015-03-29

TLS has changed from using the non-standard NPN extension to the IETF standardized ALPN extension for negotiating an application-level protocol. Unfortunately the semantics of the exchange have changed with ALPN. Using NPN, the server offered a list of protocols it advertised, and then the client chose its favorite. With ALPN, the client offers a list of protocols and the server chooses. The the signatures of both the TLS::Client and TLS::Server constructors have changed to support this new flow.
Optimized ECDSA signature verification thanks to an observation by Dr. Falko Strenzke. On some systems verifications are between 1.5 and 2 times faster than in 1.11.15.
RSA encrypt and decrypt operations using OpenSSL have been added.
Public key operation types now handle all aspects of the operation, such as hashing and padding for signatures. This change allows supporting specialized implementations which only support particular padding types.
Added global timeout to HMAC_RNG entropy reseed. The defaults are the values set in the build.h macros BOTAN_RNG_AUTO_RESEED_TIMEOUT and BOTAN_RNG_RESEED_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT, but can be overriden on a specific poll with the new API call reseed_with_timeout.
Fixed Python cipher update_granularity() and default_nonce_length() functions
The library now builds on Visual C++ 2013
The GCM update granularity was reduced from 4096 to 16 bytes.
Fix a bug that prevented building the amalgamation until a non-amalgamation configuration was performed first in the same directory.
Add Travis CI integration. Github pull 60.

Version 1.11.15, 2015-03-08

Support for RC4 in TLS, already disabled by default, is now deprecated. The RC4 ciphersuites will be removed entirely in a future release.
A bug in ffi.cpp meant Python could only encrypt. Github issue 53.
When comparing two ASN.1 algorithm identifiers, consider empty and NULL parameters the same.
Fixed memory leaks in TLS and cipher modes introduced in 1.11.14
MARK-4 failed when OpenSSL was enabled in the build in 1.11.14 because the OpenSSL version ignored the skip parameter.
Fix compilation problem on OS X/clang
Use BOTAN_NOEXCEPT macro to work around lack of noexcept in VS 2013

Version 1.11.14, 2015-02-27

The global state object previously used by the library has been removed. This includes the global PRNG. The library can be safely initialized multiple times without harm.

The engine code has also been removed, replaced by a much lighter-weight object registry system which provides lookups in faster time and with less memory overhead than the previous approach.

One caveat of the current system with regards to static linking: because only symbols already mentioned elsewhere in the program are included in the final link step, few algorithms will be available through the lookup system by default, even though they were compiled into the library. Your application must explicitly reference the types you require or they will not end up being available in the final binary. See also Github issue #52

If you intend to build your application against a static library and don't want to explicitly reference each algo object you might attempt to look up by string, consider either building with --via-amalgamation, or else (much simpler) using the amalgamation directly.
The new ffi submodule provides a simple C API/ABI for a number of useful operations (hashing, ciphers, public key operations, etc) which is easily accessed using the FFI modules included in many languages.
A new Python wrapper (in src/lib/python/botan.py) using ffi and the Python ctypes module is available. The old Boost.Python wrapper has been removed.
Add specialized reducers for P-192, P-224, P-256, and P-384
OCB mode, which provides a fast and constant time AEAD mode without requiring hardware support, is now supported in TLS, following draft-zauner-tls-aes-ocb-01. Because this specification is not yet finalized is not yet enabled by the default policy, and the ciphersuite numbers used are in the experimental range and may conflict with other uses.
Add ability to read TLS policy from a text file using TLS::Text_Policy.
The amalgamation now splits off any ISA specific code (for instance, that requiring SSSE3 instruction sets) into a new file named (for instance) botan_all_ssse3.cpp. This allows the main amalgamation file to be compiled without any special flags, so --via-amalgamation builds actually work now. This is disabled with the build option --single-amalgamation-file
PBKDF and KDF operations now provide a way to write the desired output directly to an application-specified area rather than always allocating a new heap buffer.
HKDF, previously provided using a non-standard interface, now uses the standard KDF interface and is retrievable using get_kdf.
It is once again possible to build the complete test suite without requiring any boost libraries. This is currently only supported on systems supporting the readdir interface.
Remove use of memset_s which caused problems with amalgamation on OS X. Github 42, 45
The memory usage of the counter mode implementation has been reduced. Previously it encrypted 256 blocks in parallel as this leads to a slightly faster counter increment operation. Instead CTR_BE simply encrypts a buffer equal in size to the advertised parallelism of the cipher implementation. This is not measurably slower, and dramatically reduces the memory use of CTR mode.
The memory allocator available on Unix systems which uses mmap and mlock to lock a pool of memory now checks environment variable BOTAN_MLOCK_POOL_SIZE and interprets it as an integer. If the value set to a smaller value then the library would originally have allocated (based on resource limits) the user specified size is used instead. You can also set the variable to 0 to disable the pool entirely. Previously the allocator would consume all available mlocked memory, this allows botan to coexist with an application which wants to mlock memory for its own uses.
The botan-config script previously installed on Unix systems has been removed. Its functionality is replaced by the config command of the botan tool executable, for example botan config cflags instead of botan-config --cflags.
Added a target for POWER8 processors

Version 1.11.13, 2015-01-11

All support for the insecure SSLv3 protocol and the server support for processing SSLv2 client hellos has been removed.
The command line tool now has tls_proxy which negotiates TLS with clients and forwards the plaintext to a specified port.
Add MCEIES, a McEliece-based integrated encryption system using AES-256 in OCB mode for message encryption/authentication.
Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation defined in RFC 5764
Add SipHash
Add SHA-512/256
The format of serialized TLS sessions has changed. Additiionally, PEM formatted sessions now use the label of "TLS SESSION" instead of "SSL SESSION"
Serialized TLS sessions are now encrypted using AES-256/GCM instead of a CBC+HMAC construction.
The cryptobox_psk module added in 1.11.4 and previously used for TLS session encryption has been removed.
When sending a TLS heartbeat message, the number of pad bytes to use can now be specified, making it easier to use for PMTU discovery.
If available, zero_mem now uses RtlSecureZeroMemory or memset_s instead of a byte-at-a-time loop.
The functions base64_encode and base64_decode would erroneously throw an exception if passed a zero-length input. Github issue 37.
The Python install script added in version 1.11.10 failed to place the headers into a versioned subdirectory.
Fix the install script when running under Python3.
Avoid code that triggers iterator debugging asserts under MSVC 2013. Github pull 36 from Simon Warta.

Version 1.11.12, 2015-01-02

Add Curve25519. The implementation is based on curve25519-donna-c64.c by Adam Langley. New (completely non-standard) OIDs and formats for encrypting Curve25519 keys under PKCS #8 and including them in certificates and CRLs have been defined.
Add Poly1305, based on the implementation poly1305-donna by Andrew Moon.
Add the ChaCha20Poly1305 AEADs defined in draft-irtf-cfrg-chacha20-poly1305-03 and draft-agl-tls-chacha20poly1305-04.
Add ChaCha20Poly1305 ciphersuites for TLS compatible with Google's servers following draft-agl-tls-chacha20poly1305-04
When encrypted as PKCS #8 structures, Curve25519 and McEliece private keys default to using AES-256/GCM instead of AES-256/CBC
Define OIDs for OCB mode with AES, Serpent and Twofish.

Version 1.11.11, 2014-12-21

The Sqlite3 wrapper has been abstracted to a simple interface for SQL dbs in general, though Sqlite3 remains the only implementation. The main logic of the TLS session manager which stored encrypted sessions to a Sqlite3 database (TLS::Session_Manager_SQLite) has been moved to the new TLS::Session_Manager_SQL. The Sqlite3 manager API remains the same but now just subclasses TLS::Session_Manager_SQL and has a constructor instantiate the concrete database instance.

Applications which would like to use a different db can now do so without having to reimplement the session cache logic simply by implementing a database wrapper subtype.
The CryptGenRandom entropy source is now also used on MinGW.
The system_rng API is now also available on systems with CryptGenRandom
With GCC use -fstack-protector for linking as well as compiling, as this is required on MinGW. Github issue 34.
Fix missing dependency in filters that caused compilation problem in amalgamation builds. Github issue 33.
SSLv3 support is officially deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Version 1.10.9, 2014-12-13

Fixed EAX tag verification to run in constant time
The default TLS policy now disables SSLv3.
A crash could occur when reading from a blocking random device if the device initially indicated that entropy was available but a concurrent process drained the entropy pool before the read was initiated.
Fix decoding indefinite length BER constructs that contain a context sensitive tag of zero. Github pull 26 from Janusz Chorko.
The botan-config script previously tried to guess its prefix from the location of the binary. However this was error prone, and now the script assumes the final installation prefix matches the value set during the build. Github issue 29.

Version 1.11.10, 2014-12-10

An implementation of McEliece code-based public key encryption based on INRIA's HyMES and secured against a variety of side-channels was contributed by cryptosource GmbH. The original version is LGPL but cryptosource has secured permission to release an adaptation under a BSD license. A CCA2-secure KEM scheme is also included.

The implementation is further described in http://www.cryptosource.de/docs/mceliece_in_botan.pdf and http://cryptosource.de/news_mce_in_botan_en.html
DSA and ECDSA now create RFC 6979 deterministic signatures.
Add support for TLS fallback signaling (draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00). Clients will send a fallback SCSV if the version passed to the Client constructor is less than the latest version supported by local policy, so applications implementing fallback are protected. Servers always check the SCSV.
In previous versions a TLS::Server could service either TLS or DTLS connections depending on policy settings and what type of client hello it received. This has changed and now a Server object is initialized for either TLS or DTLS operation. The default policy previously prohibited DTLS, precisely to prevent a TCP server from being surprised by a DTLS connection. The default policy now allows TLS v1.0 or higher or DTLS v1.2.
Fixed a bug in CCM mode which caused it to produce incorrect tags when used with a value of L other than 2. This affected CCM TLS ciphersuites, which use L=3. Thanks to Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard for the anaylsis and patch. Bugzilla 270.
DTLS now supports timeouts and handshake retransmits. Timeout checking is triggered by the application calling the new TLS::Channel::timeout_check.
Add a TLS policy hook to disable putting the value of the local clock in hello random fields.
All compression operations previously available as Filters are now performed via the Transformation API, which minimizes memory copies. Compression operations are still available through the Filter API using new general compression/decompression filters in comp_filter.h
The zlib module now also supports gzip compression and decompression.
Avoid a crash in low-entropy situations when reading from /dev/random, when select indicated the device was readable but by the time we start the read the entropy pool had been depleted.
The Miller-Rabin primality test function now takes a parameter allowing the user to directly specify the maximum false negative probability they are willing to accept.
PKCS #8 private keys can now be encrypted using GCM mode instead of unauthenticated CBC. The default remains CBC for compatibility.
The default PKCS #8 encryption scheme has changed to use PBKDF2 with SHA-256 instead of SHA-1
A specialized reducer for P-521 was added.
On Linux the mlock allocator will use MADV_DONTDUMP on the pool so that the contents are not included in coredumps.
A new interface for directly using a system-provided PRNG is available in system_rng.h. Currently only systems with /dev/urandom are supported.
Fix decoding indefinite length BER constructs that contain a context sensitive tag of zero. Github pull 26 from Janusz Chorko.
The GNU MP engine has been removed.
Added AltiVec detection for POWER8 processors.
Add a new install script written in Python which replaces shell hackery in the makefiles.
Various modifications to better support Visual C++ 2013 and 2015. Github issues 11, 17, 18, 21, 22.

Version 1.10.8, 2014-04-10

SECURITY: Fix a bug in primality testing introduced in 1.8.3 which caused only a single random base, rather than a sequence of random bases, to be used in the Miller-Rabin test. This increased the probability that a non-prime would be accepted, for instance a 1024 bit number would be incorrectly classed as prime with probability around 2^-40. Reported by Jeff Marrison. CVE-2014-9742
The key length limit on HMAC has been raised to 512 bytes, allowing the use of very long passphrases with PBKDF2.

Version 1.11.9, 2014-04-10

SECURITY: Fix a bug in primality testing introduced in 1.8.3 which caused only a single random base, rather than a sequence of random bases, to be used in the Miller-Rabin test. This increased the probability that a non-prime would be accepted, for instance a 1024 bit number would be incorrectly classed as prime with probability around 2^-40. Reported by Jeff Marrison. CVE-2014-9742
X.509 path validation now returns a set of all errors that occurred during validation, rather than immediately returning the first detected error. This prevents a seemingly innocuous error (such as an expired certificate) from hiding an obviously serious error (such as an invalid signature). The Certificate_Status_Code enum is now ordered by severity, and the most severe error is returned by Path_Validation_Result::result(). The entire set of status codes is available with the new all_statuses call.
Fixed a bug in OCSP response decoding which would cause an error when attempting to decode responses from some widely used responders.
An implementation of HMAC_DRBG RNG from NIST SP800-90A has been added. Like the X9.31 PRNG implementation, it uses another underlying RNG for seeding material.
An implementation of the RFC 6979 deterministic nonce generator has been added.
Fix a bug in certificate path validation which prevented successful validation if intermediate certificates were presented out of order.
Fix a bug introduced in 1.11.5 which could cause crashes or other incorrect behavior when a cipher mode filter was followed in the pipe by another filter, and that filter had a non-empty start_msg.
The types.h header now uses stdint.h rather than cstdint to avoid problems with Clang on OS X.

Version 1.11.8, 2014-02-13

The botan command line application introduced in 1.11.7 is now installed along with the library.
A bug in certificate path validation introduced in 1.11.6 which caused all CRL signature checks to fail has been corrected.
The ChaCha20 stream cipher has been added.
The Transformation class no longer implements an interface for keying, this has been moved to a new subclass Keyed_Transformation.
The Algorithm class, which previously acted as a global base for various types (ciphers, hashes, etc) has been removed.
CMAC now supports 256 and 512 bit block ciphers, which also allows the use of larger block ciphers with EAX mode. In particular this allows using Threefish in EAX mode.
The antique PBES1 private key encryption scheme (which only supports DES or 64-bit RC2) has been removed.
The Square, Skipjack, and Luby-Rackoff block ciphers have been removed.
The Blue Midnight Wish hash function has been removed.
Skein-512 no longer supports output lengths greater than 512 bits.
Skein did not reset its internal state properly if clear() was called, causing it to produce incorrect results for the following message. It was reset correctly in final() so most usages should not be affected.
A number of public key padding schemes have been renamed to match the most common notation; for instance EME1 is now called OAEP and EMSA4 is now called PSSR. Aliases are set which should allow all current applications to continue to work unmodified.
A bug in CFB encryption caused a few bytes past the end of the final block to be read. The actual output was not affected.
Fix compilation errors in the tests that occurred with minimized builds. Contributed by Markus Wanner.
Add a new --destdir option to configure.py which controls where the install target will place the output. The --prefix option continues to set the location where the library expects to be eventually installed.
Many class destructors which previously deleted memory have been removed in favor of using unique_ptr.
Various portability fixes for Clang, Windows, Visual C++ 2013, OS X, and x86-32.

Version 1.11.7, 2014-01-10

Botan's basic numeric types are now defined in terms of the C99/C++11 standard integer types. For instance u32bit is now a typedef for uint32_t, and both names are included in the library namespace. This should not result in any application-visible changes.
There are now two executable outputs of the build, botan-test, which runs the tests, and botan which is used as a driver to call into various subcommands which can also act as examples of library use, much in the manner of the openssl command. It understands the commands base64, asn1, x509, tls_client, tls_server, bcrypt, keygen, speed, and various others. As part of this change many obsolete, duplicated, or one-off examples were removed, while others were extended with new functionality. Contributions of new subcommands, new bling for exising ones, or documentation in any form is welcome.
Fix a bug in Lion, which was broken by a change in 1.11.0. The problem was not noticed before as Lion was also missing a test vector in previous releases.

Version 1.10.7, 2013-12-29

OAEP had two bugs, one of which allowed it to be used even if the key was too small, and the other of which would cause a crash during decryption if the EME data was too large for the associated key.

Version 1.11.6, 2013-12-29

The Boost filesystem and asio libraries are now being used by default. Pass --without-boost to configure.py to disable.
The default TLS policy no longer allows SSLv3 or RC4.
OAEP had two bugs, one of which allowed it to be used even if the key was too small, and the other of which would cause a crash during decryption if the EME data was too large for the associated key.
GCM mode now uses the Intel clmul instruction when available
Add the Threefish-512 tweakable block cipher, including an AVX2 version
Add SIV (from RFC 5297) as a nonce-based AEAD
Add HKDF (from RFC 5869) using an experimental PRF interface
Add HTTP utility functions and OCSP online checking
Add TLS::Policy::acceptable_ciphersuite hook to disable ciphersuites on an ad-hoc basis.
TLS::Session_Manager_In_Memory's constructor now requires a RNG

Version 1.10.6, 2013-11-10

The device reading entropy source now attempts to read from all available devices. Previously it would break out early if a partial read from a blocking source occurred, not continuing to read from a non-blocking device. This would cause the library to fall back on slower and less reliable techniques for collecting PRNG seed material. Reported by Rickard Bellgrim.
HMAC_RNG (the default PRNG implementation) now automatically reseeds itself periodically. Previously reseeds only occurred on explicit application request.
Fix an encoding error in EC_Group when encoding using EC_DOMPAR_ENC_OID. Reported by fxdupont on github.
In EMSA2 and Randpool, avoid calling name() on objects after deleting them if the provided algorithm objects are not suitable for use. Found by Clang analyzer, reported by Jeffrey Walton.
If X509_Store was copied, the u32bit containing how long to cache validation results was not initialized, potentially causing results to be cached for significant amounts of time. This could allow a certificate to be considered valid after its issuing CA's cert expired. Expiration of the end-entity cert is always checked, and reading a CRL always causes the status to be reset, so this issue does not affect revocation. Found by Coverity scanner.
Avoid off by one causing a potentially unterminated string to be passed to the connect system call if the library was configured to use a very long path name for the EGD socket. Found by Coverity Scanner.
In PK_Encryptor_EME, PK_Decryptor_EME, PK_Verifier, and PK_Key_Agreement, avoid dereferencing an unitialized pointer if no engine supported operations on the key object given. Found by Coverity scanner.
Avoid leaking a file descriptor in the /dev/random and EGD entropy sources if stdin (file descriptor 0) was closed. Found by Coverity scanner.
Avoid a potentially undefined operation in the bit rotation operations. Not known to have caused problems under any existing compiler, but might have caused problems in the future. Caught by Clang sanitizer, reported by Jeffrey Walton.
Increase default hash iterations from 10000 to 50000 in PBES1 and PBES2
Add a fix for mips64el builds from Brad Smith.

Version 1.11.5, 2013-11-10

The TLS callback signatures have changed - there are now two distinct callbacks for application data and alerts. TLS::Client and TLS::Server have constructors which continue to accept the old callback and use it for both operations.
The entropy collector that read from randomness devices had two bugs - it would break out of the poll as soon as any read succeeded, and it selected on each device individually. When a blocking source was first in the device list and the entropy pool was running low, the reader might either block in select until eventually timing out (continuing on to read from /dev/urandom instead), or read just a few bytes, skip /dev/urandom, fail to satisfy the entropy target, and the poll would continue using other (slower) sources. This caused substantial performance/latency problems in RNG heavy applications. Now all devices are selected over at once, with the effect that a full read from urandom always occurs, along with however much (if any) output is available from blocking sources.
Previously AutoSeeded_RNG referenced a globally shared PRNG instance. Now each instance has distinct state.
The entropy collector that runs Unix programs to collect statistical data now runs multiple processes in parallel, greatly reducing poll times on some systems.
The Randpool RNG implementation was removed.
All existing cipher mode implementations (such as CBC and XTS) have been converted from filters to using the interface previously provided by AEAD modes which allows for in-place message processing. Code which directly references the filter objects will break, but an adaptor filter allows usage through get_cipher as usual.
An implementation of CCM mode from RFC 3601 has been added, as well as CCM ciphersuites for TLS.
The implementation of OCB mode now supports 64 and 96 bit tags
Optimized computation of XTS tweaks, producing a substantial speedup
Add support for negotiating Brainpool ECC curves in TLS
TLS v1.2 will not negotiate plain SHA-1 signatures by default.
TLS channels now support sending a std::vector
Add a generic 64x64->128 bit multiply instruction operation in mul128.h
Avoid potentially undefined operations in the bit rotation operations. Not known to have caused problems under existing compilers but might break in the future. Found by Clang sanitizer, reported by Jeffrey Walton.

Version 1.11.4, 2013-07-25

CPU specific extensions are now always compiled if support for the operations is available at build time, and flags enabling use of extra operations (such as SSE2) are only included when compiling files which specifically request support. This means, for instance, that the SSSE3 and AES-NI implementations of AES are always included in x86 builds, relying on runtime cpuid checking to prevent their use on CPUs that do not support those operations.
The default TLS policy now only accepts TLS, to minimize surprise for servers which might not expect to negotiate DTLS. Previously a server would by default negotiate either protocol type (clients would only accept the same protocol type as they offered). Applications which use DTLS or combined TLS/DTLS need to override Policy::acceptable_protocol_version.
The TLS channels now accept a new parameter specifying how many bytes to preallocate for the record handling buffers, which allows an application some control over how much memory is used at runtime for a particular connection.
Applications can now send arbitrary TLS alert messages using TLS::Channel::send_alert
A new TLS policy NSA_Suite_B_128 is available, which will negotiate only the 128-bit security NSA Suite B. See RFC 6460 for more information about Suite B.
Adds a new interface for benchmarking, time_algorithm_ops, which returns a map of operations to operations per second. For instance now both encrypt and decrypt speed of a block cipher can be checked, as well as the key schedule of all keyed algorithms. It additionally supports AEAD modes.
Rename ARC4 to RC4

Version 1.11.3, 2013-04-11

Add a new interface for AEAD modes (AEAD_Mode).
Implementations of the OCB and GCM authenticated cipher modes are now included.
Support for TLS GCM ciphersuites is now available.
A new TLS policy mechanism TLS::Policy::server_uses_own_ciphersuite_preferences controls how a server chooses a ciphersuite. Previously it always chose its most preferred cipher out of the client's list, but this can allow configuring a server to choose by the client's preferences instead.
Keyed_Filter now supports returning a Key_Length_Specification so the full details of what keylengths are supported is now available in keyed filters.
The experimental and rarely used Turing and WiderWAKE stream ciphers have been removed
New functions for symmetric encryption are included in cryptobox.h though interfaces and formats are subject to change.
A new function algorithm_kat_detailed returns a string providing information about failures, instead of just a pass/fail indicator as in algorithm_kat.

Version 1.10.5, 2013-03-02

A potential crash in the AES-NI implementation of the AES-192 key schedule (caused by misaligned loads) has been fixed.
A previously conditional operation in Montgomery multiplication and squaring is now always performed, removing a possible timing channel.
Use correct flags for creating a shared library on OS X under Clang.
Fix a compile time incompatibility with Visual C++ 2012.

Version 1.11.2, 2013-03-02

A bug in the release script caused the botan_version.py included in 1.11.1`` to be invalid, which required a manual edit to fix (Bugzilla 226)
Previously clear_mem was implemented by an inlined call to std::memset. However an optimizing compiler might notice cases where the memset could be skipped in cases allowed by the standard. Now clear_mem calls zero_mem which is compiled separately and which zeros out the array through a volatile pointer. It is possible some compiler with some optimization setting (especially with something like LTO) might still skip the writes. It would be nice if there was an automated way to test this.
The new filter Threaded_Fork acts like a normal Fork, sending its input to a number of different filters, but each subchain of filters in the fork runs in its own thread. Contributed by Joel Low.
The default TLS policy formerly preferred AES over RC4, and allowed 3DES by default. Now the default policy is to negotiate only either AES or RC4, and to prefer RC4.
New TLS Blocking_Client provides a thread per connection style API similar to that provided in 1.10
The API of Credentials_Manager::trusted_certificate_authorities has changed to return a vector of Certificate_Store* instead of X509_Certificate. This allows the list of trusted CAs to be more easily updated dynamically or loaded lazily.
The asn1_int.h header was split into asn1_alt_name.h, asn1_attribute.h and asn1_time.h.

Version 1.10.4, 2013-01-07

Avoid a conditional operation in the power mod implementations on if a nibble of the exponent was zero or not. This may help protect against certain forms of side channel attacks.
The SRP6 code was checking for invalid values as specified in RFC 5054, specifically values equal to zero mod p. However SRP would accept negative A/B values, or ones larger than p, neither of which should occur in a normal run of the protocol. These values are now rejected. Credits to Timothy Prepscius for pointing out these values are not normally used and probably signal something fishy.
The return value of version_string is now a compile time constant string, so version information can be more easily extracted from binaries.

Version 1.11.1, 2012-10-30

Initial support for DTLS (both v1.0 and v1.2) is available in this release, though it should be considered highly experimental. Currently timeouts and retransmissions are not handled.

The TLS::Client constructor now takes the version to offer to the server. The policy hook TLS::Policy function pref_version`, which previously controlled this, has been removed.

TLS::Session_Manager_In_Memory` now chooses a random 256-bit key at startup and encrypts all sessions (using the existing TLS::Session::encrypt` mechanism) while they are stored in memory. This is primarily to reduce pressure on locked memory, as each session normally requires 48 bytes of locked memory for the master secret, whereas now only 32 bytes are needed total. This change may also make it slightly harder for an attacker to extract session data from memory dumps (eg with a cold boot attack).

The keys used in TLS session encryption were previously uniquely determined by the master key. Now the encrypted session blob includes two 80 bit salts which are used in the derivation of the cipher and MAC keys.

The secure_renegotiation flag is now considered an aspect of the connection rather than the session, which matches the behavior of other implementations. As the format has changed, sessions saved to persistent storage by 1.11.0 will not load in this version and vice versa. In either case this will not cause any errors, the session will simply not resume and instead a full handshake will occur.

New policy hooks TLS::Policy::acceptable_protocol_version, TLS::Policy::allow_server_initiated_renegotiation`, and TLS::Policy::negotiate_heartbeat_support` were added.

TLS clients were not sending a next protocol message during a session resumption, which would cause resumption failures with servers that support NPN if NPN was being offered by the client.

A bug caused heartbeat requests sent by the counterparty during a handshake to be passed to the application callback as if they were heartbeat responses.

Support for TLS key material export as specified in RFC 5705 has been added, available via TLS::Channel::key_material_export

A new function Public_Key::estimated_strength returns an estimate for the upper bound of the strength of the key. For instance for an RSA key, it will return an estimate of how many operations GNFS would take to factor the key.

A new Path_Validation_Result code has been added SIGNATURE_METHOD_TOO_WEAK. By default signatures created with keys below 80 bits of strength (as estimated by estimated_strength) are rejected. This level can be modified using a parameter to the Path_Validation_Restrictions constructor.

The SRP6 code was checking for invalid values as specified in RFC 5054, ones equal to zero mod p, however it would accept negative A/B values, or ones larger than p, neither of which should occur in a normal run of the protocol. These values are now rejected. Credits to Timothy Prepscius for pointing out these values are not normally used and probably signal something fishy.

Several BigInt functions have been removed, including operator[], assign, get_reg, and grow_reg. The version of data that returns a mutable pointer has been renamed mutable_data. Support for octal conversions has been removed.

The constructor BigInt(NumberType type, size_t n) has been removed, replaced by BigInt::power_of_2.

In 1.11.0, when compiled by GCC, the AES-NI implementation of AES-192 would crash if the mlock-based allocator was used due to an alignment issue.

Version 1.11.0, 2012-07-19

Note

In this release, many new features of C++11 are being used in the library. Currently GCC 4.7 and Clang 3.1 are known to work well. This version of the library cannot be compiled by or used with a C++98 compiler.

There have been many changes and improvements to TLS. The interface is now purely event driven and does not directly interact with sockets. New TLS features include TLS v1.2 support, client certificate authentication, renegotiation, session tickets, and session resumption. Session information can be saved in memory or to an encrypted SQLite3 database. Newly supported TLS ciphersuite algorithms include using SHA-2 for message authentication, pre shared keys and SRP for authentication and key exchange, ECC algorithms for key exchange and signatures, and anonymous DH/ECDH key exchange.

Support for OCSP has been added. Currently only client-side support exists.

The API for X.509 path validation has changed, with x509_path_validate in x509path.h now handles path validation and Certificate_Store handles storage of certificates and CRLs.

The memory container types have changed substantially. The MemoryVector and SecureVector container types have been removed, and an alias of std::vector using an allocator that clears memory named secure_vector is used for key material, with plain std::vector being used for everything else.

The technique used for mlock'ing memory on Linux and BSD systems is much improved. Now a single page-aligned block of memory (the exact limit of what we can mlock) is mmap'ed, with allocations being done using a best-fit allocator and all metadata held outside the mmap'ed range, in an effort to make best use of the very limited amount of memory current Linux kernels allow unpriveledged users to lock.

A filter using LZMA was contributed by Vojtech Kral. It is available if LZMA support was enabled at compilation time by passing --with-lzma to configure.py.

RFC 5915 adds some extended information which can be included in ECC private keys which the ECC key decoder did not expect, causing an exception when such a key was loaded. In particular, recent versions of OpenSSL use these fields. Now these fields are decoded properly, and if the public key value is included it is used, as otherwise the public key needs to be rederived from the private key. However the library does not include these fields on encoding keys for compatibility with software that does not expect them (including older versions of botan).

Version 1.8.14, 2012-07-18

The malloc allocator would return null instead of throwing in the event of an allocation failure, which could cause an application crash due to null pointer dereference where normally an exception would occur.
Recent versions of OpenSSL include extra information in ECC private keys, the presence of which caused an exception when such a key was loaded by botan. The decoding of ECC private keys has been changed to ignore these fields if they are set.
AutoSeeded_RNG has been changed to prefer /dev/random over /dev/urandom
Fix detection of s390x (Debian bug 638347)

Version 1.10.3, 2012-07-10

A change in 1.10.2 accidentally broke ABI compatibility with 1.10.1 and earlier versions, causing programs compiled against 1.10.1 to crash if linked with 1.10.2 at runtime.

Recent versions of OpenSSL include extra information in ECC private keys, the presence of which caused an exception when such a key was loaded by botan. The decoding of ECC private keys has been changed to ignore these fields if they are set.

Version 1.10.2, 2012-06-17

Several TLS bugs were fixed in this release, including a major omission that the renegotiation extension was not being used. As the 1.10 implementation of TLS does not properly support renegotiation, the approach in this release is simply to send the renegotiation extension SCSV, which should protect the client against any handshake splicing. In addition renegotiation attempts are handled properly instead of causing handshake failures - all hello requests, and all client hellos after the initial negotiation, are ignored. Some bugs affecting DSA server authentication were also fixed.

By popular request, Pipe::reset no longer requires that message processing be completed, a requirement that caused problems when a Filter's end_msg call threw an exception, after which point the Pipe object was no longer usable.

Support for getting entropy using the rdrand instruction introduced in Intel's Ivy Bridge processors has been added. In previous releases, the CPUID::has_rdrand function was checking the wrong cpuid bit, and would false positive on AMD Bulldozer processors.

An implementation of SRP-6a compatible with the specification in RFC 5054 is now available in srp6.h. In 1.11, this is being used for TLS-SRP, but may be useful in other environments as well.

An implementation of the Camellia block cipher was added, again largely for use in TLS.

If clock_gettime is available on the system, hres_timer will poll all the available clock types.

AltiVec is now detected on IBM POWER7 processors and on OpenBSD systems. The OpenBSD support was contributed by Brad Smith.

The Qt mutex wrapper was broken and would not compile with any recent version of Qt. Taking this as a clear indication that it is not in use, it has been removed.

Avoid setting the soname on OpenBSD, as it doesn't support it (Bugzilla 158)

A compilation problem in the dynamic loader that prevented using dyn_load under MinGW GCC has been fixed.

A common error for people using MinGW is to target GCC on Windows, however the 'Windows' target assumes the existence of Visual C++ runtime functions which do not exist in MinGW. Now, configuring for GCC on Windows will cause the configure.py to warn that likely you wanted to configure for either MinGW or Cygwin, not the generic Windows target.

A bug in configure.py would cause it to interpret --cpu=s390x as s390. This may have affected other CPUs as well. Now configure.py searches for an exact match, and only if no exact match is found will it search for substring matches.

An incompatibility in configure.py with the subprocess module included in Python 3.1 has been fixed (Bugzilla 157).

The exception catching syntax of configure.py has been changed to the Python 3.x syntax. This syntax also works with Python 2.6 and 2.7, but not with any earlier Python 2 release. A simple search and replace will allow running it under Python 2.5: perl -pi -e 's/except (.*) as (.*):/except $1, $2:/g' configure.py

Note that Python 2.4 is not supported at all.

Version 1.10.1, 2011-07-11

A race condition in Algorithm_Factory could cause crashes in multithreaded code.
The return value of name has changed for GOST 28147-89 and Skein-512. GOST's name now includes the name of the sbox, and Skein's includes the personalization string (if nonempty). This allows an object to be properly roundtripped, which is necessary to fix the race condition described above.
A new distribution script is now included, as src/build-data/scripts/dist.py
The build.h header now includes, if available, an identifier of the source revision that was used. This identifier is also included in the result of version_string.

Version 1.8.13, 2011-07-02

A race condition in Algorithm_Factory could cause crashes in multithreaded code.

Version 1.10.0, 2011-06-20

Detection for the rdrand instruction being added to upcoming Intel Ivy Bridge processors has been added.
A template specialization of std::swap was added for the memory container types.

Version 1.8.12, 2011-06-20

If EMSA3(Raw) was used for more than one signature, it would produce incorrect output.
Fix the --enable-debug option to configure.py
Improve OS detection on Cygwin
Fix compilation under Sun Studio 12 on Solaris
Fix a memory leak in the constructors of DataSource_Stream and DataSink_Stream which would occur if opening the file failed (Bugzilla 144)

Version 1.9.18, 2011-06-03

Fourth release candidate for 1.10.0
The GOST 34.10 verification operation was not ensuring that s and r were both greater than zero. This could potentially have meant it would have accepted an invalid all-zero signature as valid for any message. Due to how ECC points are internally represented it instead resulted in an exception being thrown.
A simple multiexponentation algorithm is now used in ECDSA and GOST-34.10 signature verification, leading to 20 to 25% improvements in ECDSA and 25% to 40% improvements in GOST-34.10 verification performance.
The internal representation of elliptic curve points has been modified to use Montgomery representation exclusively, resulting in reduced memory usage and a 10 to 20% performance improvement for ECDSA and ECDH.
In OAEP decoding, scan for the delimiter bytes using a loop that is written without conditionals so as to help avoid timing analysis. Unfortunately GCC at least is 'smart' enough to compile it to jumps anyway.
The SSE2 implementation of IDEA did not work correctly when compiled by Clang, because the trick it used to emulate a 16 bit unsigned compare in SSE (which doesn't contain one natively) relied on signed overflow working in the 'usual' way. A different method that doesn't rely on signed overflow is now used.
Add support for compiling SSL using Visual C++ 2010's TR1 implementation.
Fix a bug under Visual C++ 2010 which would cause hex_encode to crash if given a zero-sized input to encode.
A new build option --via-amalgamation will first generate the single-file amalgamation, then build the library from that single file. This option requires a lot of memory and does not parallelize, but the resulting library is smaller and may be faster.
On Unix, the library and header paths have been changed to allow parallel installation of different versions of the library. Headers are installed into <prefix>/include/botan-1.9/botan, libraries are named libbotan-1.9, and botan-config is now namespaced (so in this release botan-config-1.9). All of these embedded versions will be 1.10 in the upcoming stable release.
The soname system has been modified. In this release the library soname is libbotan-1.9.so.0, with the full library being named libbotan-1.9.so.0.18. The 0 is the ABI version, and will be incremented whenever a breaking ABI change is made.
TR1 support is not longer automatically assumed under older versions of GCC
Functions for base64 decoding that work standalone (without needing to use a pipe) have been added to base64.h
The function BigInt::to_u32bit was inadvertently removed in 1.9.11 and has been added back.
The function BigInt::get_substring did not work correctly with a length argument of 32.
The implementation of FD_ZERO on Solaris uses memset and assumes the caller included string.h on its behalf. Do so to fix compilation in the dev_random and unix_procs entropy sources. Patch from Jeremy C. Reed.
Add two different configuration targets for Atom, since some are 32-bit and some are 64-bit. The 'atom' target now refers to the 64-bit implementations, use 'atom32' to target the 32-bit processors.
The (incomplete) support for CMS and card verifiable certificates are disabled by default; add --enable-modules=cms or --enable-modules=cvc during configuration to turn them back on.

Version 1.9.17, 2011-04-29

Third release candidate for 1.10.0
The format preserving encryption method currently available was presented in the header fpe.h and the functions fpe_encrypt and fpe_decrypt. These were renamed as it is likely that other FPE schemes will be included in the future. The header is now fpe_fe1.h, and the functions are named fe1_encrypt and fe1_decrypt.
New options to configure.py control what tools are used for documentation generation. The --with-sphinx option enables using Sphinx to convert ReST into HTML; otherwise the ReST sources are installed directly. If --with-doxygen is used, Doxygen will run as well. Documentation generation can be triggered via the docs target in the makefile; it will also be installed by the install target on Unix.
A bug in 1.9.16 effectively disabled support for runtime CPU feature detection on x86 under GCC in that release.
A mostly internal change, all references to "ia32" and "amd64" have been changed to the vendor neutral and probably easier to understand "x86-32" and "x86-64". For instance, the "mp_amd64" module has been renamed "mp_x86_64", and the macro indicating x86-32 has changed from BOTAN_TARGET_ARCH_IS_IA32 to BOTAN_TARGET_ARCH_IS_X86_32. The classes calling assembly have also been renamed.
Similiarly to the above change, the AES implemenations using the AES-NI instruction set have been renamed from AES_XXX_Intel to AES_XXX_NI.
Systems that are identified as sun4u will default to compiling for 32-bit SPARCv9 code rather than 64-bit. This matches the still common convention for 32-bit SPARC userspaces. If you want 64-bit code on such as system, use --cpu=sparc64.
Some minor fixes for compiling botan under the BeOS clone/continuation Haiku.
Further updates to the documentation

Version 1.9.16, 2011-04-11

Second release candidate for 1.10.0
The documentation, previously written in LaTeX, is now in reStructuredText suitable for processing by Sphinx, which can generate nicely formatted HTML and PDFs. The documentation has also been greatly updated and expanded.
The class EC_Domain_Params has been renamed EC_Group, with a typedef for backwards compatibility.
The EC_Group string constructor didn't understand the standard names like "secp160r1", forcing use of the OIDs.
Two constructors for ECDSA private keys, the one that creates a new random key, and the one that provides a preset private key as a BigInt, have been merged. This matches the existing interface for DSA and DH keys. If you previously used the version taking a BigInt private key, you'll have to additionally pass in a RandomNumberGenerator object starting in this release.
It is now possible to create ECDH keys with a preset BigInt private key; previously no method for this was available.
The overload of generate_passhash9 that takes an explicit algorithm identifier has been merged with the one that does not. The algorithm identifier code has been moved from the second parameter to the fourth.
Change shared library versioning to match the normal Unix conventions. Instead of libbotan-X.Y.Z.so, the shared lib is named libbotan-X.Y.so.Z; this allows the runtime linker to do its runtime linky magic. It can be safely presumed that any change in the major or minor version indicates ABI incompatibility.
Remove the socket wrapper code; it was not actually used by anything in the library, only in the examples, and you can use whatever kind of (blocking) socket interface you like with the SSL/TLS code. It's available as socket.h in the examples directory if you want to use it.
Disable the by-default 'strong' checking of private keys that are loaded from storage. You can always request key material sanity checking using Private_Key::check_key.
Bring back removed functions min_keylength_of, max_keylength_of, keylength_multiple_of in lookup.h to avoid breaking applications written against 1.8

Version 1.9.15, 2011-03-21

First release candidate for 1.10.0
Modify how message expansion is done in SHA-256 and SHA-512. Instead of expanding the entire message at the start, compute them in the minimum number of registers. Values are computed 15 rounds before they are needed. On a Core i7-860, GCC 4.5.2, went from 143 to 157 MiB/s in SHA-256, and 211 to 256 MiB/s in SHA-512.
Pipe will delete empty output queues as soon as they are no longer needed, even if earlier messages still have data unread. However an (empty) entry in a deque of pointers will remain until all prior messages are completely emptied.
Avoid reading the SPARC %tick register on OpenBSD as unlike the Linux and NetBSD kernels, it will not trap and emulate it for us, causing a illegal instruction crash.
Improve detection and autoconfiguration for ARM processors. Thanks go out to the the Tahoe-LAFS Software Foundation, who donated a Sheevaplug that I'll be using to figure out how to make the cryptographic primitives Tahoe-LAFS relies on faster, particularly targeting the ARMv5TE.

Version 1.9.14, 2011-03-01

Add support for bcrypt, OpenBSD's password hashing scheme.
Add support for NIST's AES key wrapping algorithm, as described in RFC 3394. It is available by including rfc3394.h.
Fix an infinite loop in zlib filters introduced in 1.9.11 (Bugzilla 142)

Version 1.9.13, 2011-02-19

GOST 34.10 signatures were being formatted in a way that was not compatible with other implemenations, and specifically how GOST is used in DNSSEC.

The Keccak hash function was updated to the tweaked variant proposed for round 3 of the NIST hash competition. This version is not compatible with the previous algorithm.

A new option --distribution-info was added to the configure script. It allows the user building the library to set any distribution-specific notes on the build, which are available as a macro BOTAN_DISTRIBUTION_INFO. The default value is 'unspecified'. If you are building an unmodified version of botan (especially for distribution), and want to indicate to applications that this is the case, consider using --distribution-info=pristine. If you are making any patches or modifications, it is recommended to use --distribution-info=[Distribution Name] [Version], for instance 'FooNix 1.9.13-r3'.

Some bugs preventing compilation under Clang 2.9 and Sun Studio 12 were fixed.

The DER/BER codecs use size_t instead of u32bit for small integers

Version 1.9.12, 2010-12-13

Add the Keccak hash function
Fix compilation problems in Python wrappers
Fix compilation problem in OpenSSL engine
Update SQLite3 database encryption codec

Version 1.9.11, 2010-11-29

The TLS API has changed substantially and now relies heavily on TR1's std::function is now required. Additionally, it is required that all callers derive a subclass of TLS_Policy and pass it to a client or server object. Please remember that the TLS interface/API is currently unstable and will very likely change further before TLS is included in a stable release. A handshake failure that occurred when RC4 was negotiated has also been fixed.
Some possible timing channels in the implementations of Montgomery reduction and the IDEA key schedule were removed. The table-based AES implementation uses smaller tables in the first round to help make some timing/cache attacks harder.
The library now uses size_t instead of u32bit to represent lengths. Also the interfaces for the memory containers have changed substantially to better match STL container interfaces; MemoryRegion::append, MemoryRegion::destroy, and MemoryRegion::set were all removed, and several other functions, like clear and resize, have changed meaning.
Update Skein-512 to match the v1.3 specification
Fix a number of CRL encoding and decoding bugs
Counter mode now always encrypts 256 blocks in parallel
Use small tables in the first round of AES
Removed AES class: app must choose AES-128, AES-192, or AES-256
Add hex encoding/decoding functions that can be used without a Pipe
Add base64 encoding functions that can be used without a Pipe
Add to_string function to X509_Certificate
Add support for dynamic engine loading on Windows
Replace BlockCipher::BLOCK_SIZE attribute with function block_size()
Replace HashFunction::HASH_BLOCK_SIZE attribute with hash_block_size()
Move PBKDF lookup to engine system
The IDEA key schedule has been changed to run in constant time
Add Algorithm and Key_Length_Specification classes
Switch default PKCS #8 encryption algorithm from AES-128 to AES-256
Allow using PBKDF2 with empty passphrases
Add compile-time deprecation warnings for GCC, Clang, and MSVC
Support use of HMAC(SHA-256) and CMAC(Blowfish) in passhash9
Improve support for Intel Atom processors
Fix compilation problems under Sun Studio and Clang

Version 1.8.11, 2010-11-02

Fix a number of CRL encoding and decoding bugs
When building a debug library under VC++, use the debug runtime
Fix compilation under Sun Studio on Linux and Solaris
Add several functions for compatibility with 1.9
In the examples, read most input files as binary
The Perl build script has been removed in this release

Version 1.8.10, 2010-08-31

Switch default PKCS #8 encryption algorithm from 3DES to AES-256
Increase default hash iterations from 2048 to 10000 in PBES1 and PBES2
Use small tables in the first round of AES
Add PBKDF typedef and get_pbkdf for better compatibility with 1.9
Add version of S2K::derive_key taking salt and iteration count
Enable the /proc-walking entropy source on NetBSD
Fix the doxygen makefile target

Version 1.9.10, 2010-08-12

Add a constant-time AES implementation using SSSE3. This code is based on public domain assembly written by Mike Hamburg, and described in his CHES 2009 paper "Accelerating AES with Vector Permute Instructions". In addition to being constant time, it is also significantly faster than the table-based implementation on some processors. The current code has been tested with GCC 4.5, Visual C++ 2008, and Clang 2.8.
Support for dynamically loading Engine objects at runtime was also added. Currently only system that use dlopen-style dynamic linking are supported.
On GCC 4.3 and later, use the byteswap intrinsic functions.
Drop support for building with Python 2.4
Fix benchmarking of block ciphers in ECB mode
Consolidate the two x86 assembly engines
Rename S2K to PBKDF

Version 1.9.9, 2010-06-28

A new pure virtual function has been added to Filter, name which simply returns some useful identifier for the object. Any out-of-tree Filter implementations will need to be updated.

Add Keyed_Filter::valid_iv_length which makes it possible to query as to what IV length(s) a particular filter allows. Previously, partially because there was no such query mechanism, if a filter did not support IVs at all, then calls to set_iv would be silently ignored. Now an exception about the invalid IV length will be thrown.

The default iteration count for the password based encryption schemes has been increased from 2048 to 10000. This should make password-guessing attacks against private keys encrypted with versions after this release somewhat harder.

New functions for encoding public and private keys to binary, X509::BER_encode and PKCS8::BER_encode have been added.

Problems compiling under Apple's version of GCC 4.2.1 and on 64-bit MIPS systems using GCC 4.4 or later were fixed.

The coverage of Doxygen documentation comments has significantly improved in this release.

Version 1.8.9, 2010-06-16

Use constant time multiplication in IDEA
Avoid possible timing attack against OAEP decoding
Add new X509::BER_encode and PKCS8::BER_encode
Enable DLL builds under Windows
Add Win32 installer support
Add support for the Clang compiler
Fix problem in semcem.h preventing build under Clang or GCC 3.4
Fix bug that prevented creation of DSA groups under 1024 bits
Fix crash in GMP_Engine if library is shutdown and reinitialized and a PK algorithm was used after the second init
Work around problem with recent binutils in x86-64 SHA-1
The Perl build script is no longer supported and refuses to run by default. If you really want to use it, pass --i-know-this-is-broken to the script.

Version 1.9.8, 2010-06-14

Add support for wide multiplications on 64-bit Windows
Use constant time multiplication in IDEA
Avoid possible timing attack against OAEP decoding
Removed FORK-256; rarely used and it has been broken
Rename --use-boost-python to --with-boost-python
Skip building shared libraries on MinGW/Cygwin
Fix creation of 512 and 768 bit DL groups using the DSA kosherizer
Fix compilation on GCC versions before 4.3 (missing cpuid.h)
Fix compilation under the Clang compiler

Version 1.9.7, 2010-04-27

TLS: Support reading SSLv2 client hellos
TLS: Add support for SEED ciphersuites (RFC 4162)
Add Comb4P hash combiner function
Fix checking of EMSA_Raw signatures with leading 0 bytes, valid signatures could be rejected in certain scenarios.

Version 1.9.6, 2010-04-09

TLS: Add support for TLS v1.1
TLS: Support server name indicator extension
TLS: Fix server handshake
TLS: Fix server using DSA certificates
TLS: Avoid timing channel between CBC padding check and MAC verification

Version 1.9.5, 2010-03-29

Numerous ECC optimizations
Fix GOST 34.10-2001 X.509 key loading
Allow PK_Signer's fault protection checks to be toggled off
Avoid using pool-based locking allocator if we can't mlock
Remove all runtime options
New BER_Decoder::{decode_and_check, decode_octet_string_bigint}
Remove SecureBuffer in favor of SecureVector length parameter
HMAC_RNG: Perform a poll along with user-supplied entropy
Fix crash in MemoryRegion if Allocator::get failed
Fix small compilation problem on FreeBSD

Version 1.9.4, 2010-03-09

Add the Ajisai SSLv3/TLSv1.0 implementation
Add GOST 34.10-2001 public key signature scheme
Add SIMD implementation of Noekeon
Add SSE2 implementation of IDEA
Extend Salsa20 to support longer IVs (XSalsa20)
Perform XTS encryption and decryption in parallel where possible
Perform CBC decryption in parallel where possible
Add SQLite3 db encryption codec, contributed by Olivier de Gaalon
Add a block cipher cascade construction
Add support for password hashing for authentication (passhash9.h)
Add support for Win32 high resolution system timers
Major refactoring and API changes in the public key code
PK_Signer class now verifies all signatures before releasing them to the caller; this should help prevent a wide variety of fault attacks, though it does have the downside of hurting signature performance, particularly for DSA/ECDSA.
Changed S2K interface: derive_key now takes salt, iteration count
Remove dependency on TR1 shared_ptr in ECC and CVC code
Renamed ECKAEG to its more usual name, ECDH
Fix crash in GMP_Engine if library is shutdown and reinitialized
Fix an invalid memory read in MD4
Fix Visual C++ static builds
Remove Timer class entirely
Switch default PKCS #8 encryption algorithm from 3DES to AES-128
New configuration option, --gen-amalgamation, creates a pair of files (botan_all.cpp and botan_all.h) which contain the contents of the library as it would have normally been compiled based on the set configuration.
Many headers are now explicitly internal-use-only and are not installed
Greatly improve the Win32 installer
Several fixes for Visual C++ debug builds

Version 1.9.3, 2009-11-19

Add new AES implementation using Intel's AES instruction intrinsics
Add an implementation of format preserving encryption
Allow use of any hash function in X.509 certificate creation
Optimizations for MARS, Skipjack, and AES
Set macros for available SIMD instructions in build.h
Add support for using InnoSetup to package Windows builds
By default build a DLL on Windows

Version 1.8.8, 2009-11-03

Alter Skein-512 to match the tweaked 1.2 specification
Fix use of inline asm for access to x86 bswap function
Allow building the library without AES enabled
Add 'powerpc64' alias to ppc64 arch for Gentoo ebuild

Version 1.9.2, 2009-11-03

Add SIMD version of XTEA
Support both SSE2 and AltiVec SIMD for Serpent and XTEA
Optimizations for SHA-1 and SHA-2
Add AltiVec runtime detection
Fix x86 CPU identification with Intel C++ and Visual C++

Version 1.9.1, 2009-10-23

Better support for Python and Perl wrappers
Add an implementation of Blue Midnight Wish (Round 2 tweak version)
Modify Skein-512 to match the tweaked 1.2 specification
Add threshold secret sharing (draft-mcgrew-tss-02)
Add runtime cpu feature detection for x86/x86-64
Add code for general runtime self testing for hashes, MACs, and ciphers
Optimize XTEA; twice as fast as before on Core2 and Opteron
Convert CTR_BE and OFB from filters to stream ciphers
New parsing code for SCAN algorithm names
Enable SSE2 optimizations under Visual C++
Remove all use of C++ exception specifications
Add support for GNU/Hurd and Clang/LLVM

Version 1.8.7, 2009-09-09

Fix processing multiple messages in XTS mode
Add --no-autoload option to configure.py, for minimized builds

Version 1.9.0, 2009-09-09

Add support for parallel invocation of block ciphers where possible
Add SSE2 implementation of Serpent
Add Rivest's package transform (an all or nothing transform)
Minor speedups to the Turing key schedule
Fix processing multiple messages in XTS mode
Add --no-autoload option to configure.py, for minimized builds
The previously used configure.pl script is no longer supported

Version 1.8.6, 2009-08-13

Add Cryptobox, a set of simple password-based encryption routines
Only read world-readable files when walking /proc for entropy
Fix building with TR1 disabled
Fix x86 bswap support for Visual C++
Fixes for compilation under Sun C++
Add support for Dragonfly BSD (contributed by Patrick Georgi)
Add support for the Open64 C++ compiler
Build fixes for MIPS systems running Linux
Minor changes to license, now equivalent to the FreeBSD/NetBSD license

Version 1.8.5, 2009-07-23

Change configure.py to work on stock Python 2.4
Avoid a crash in Skein_512::add_data processing a zero-length input
Small build fixes for SPARC, ARM, and HP-PA processors
The test suite now returns an error code from main() if any tests failed

Version 1.8.4, 2009-07-12

Fix a bug in nonce generation in the Miller-Rabin test

Version 1.8.3, 2009-07-11

Add a new Python configuration script
Add the Skein-512 SHA-3 candidate hash function
Add the XTS block cipher mode from IEEE P1619
Fix random_prime when generating a prime of less than 7 bits
Improve handling of low-entropy situations during PRNG seeding
Change random device polling to prefer /dev/urandom over /dev/random
Use an input insensitive implementation of same_mem instead of memcmp
Correct DataSource::discard_next to return the number of discarded bytes
Provide a default value for AutoSeeded_RNG::reseed
Fix Gentoo bug 272242

Version 1.8.2, 2009-04-07

Make entropy polling more flexible and in most cases faster
GOST 28147 now supports multiple sbox parameters
Added the GOST 34.11 hash function
Fix botan-config problems on MacOS X

Version 1.8.1, 2009-01-20

Avoid a valgrind warning in es_unix.cpp on 32-bit Linux
Fix memory leak in PKCS8 load_key and encrypt_key
Relicense api.tex from CC-By-SA 2.5 to BSD
Fix botan-config on MacOS X, Solaris

Version 1.8.0, 2008-12-08

Fix compilation on Solaris with GCC

Version 1.7.24, 2008-12-01

Fix a compatibility problem with SHA-512/EMSA3 signature padding
Fix bug preventing EGD/PRNGD entropy poller from working
Fix integer overflow in Pooling_Allocator::get_more_core (bug id #27)
Add EMSA3_Raw, a variant of EMSA3 called CKM_RSA_PKCS in PKCS #11
Add support for SHA-224 in EMSA2 and EMSA3 PK signature padding schemes
Add many more test vectors for RSA with EMSA2, EMSA3, and EMSA4
Wrap private structs in SSE2 SHA-1 code in anonymous namespace
Change configure.pl's CPU autodetection output to be more consistent
Disable using OpenSSL's AES due to crashes of unknown cause
Fix warning in /proc walking entropy poller
Fix compilation with IBM XLC for Cell 0.9-200709

Version 1.7.23, 2008-11-23

Change to use TR1 (thus enabling ECDSA) with GCC and ICC
Optimize almost all hash functions, especially MD4 and Tiger
Add configure.pl options --{with,without}-{bzip2,zlib,openssl,gnump}
Change Timer to be pure virtual, and add ANSI_Clock_Timer
Cache socket descriptors in the EGD entropy source
Avoid bogging down startup in /proc walking entropy source
Remove Buffered_EntropySource helper class
Add a Default_Benchmark_Timer typedef in benchmark.h
Add examples using benchmark.h and Algorithm_Factory
Add ECC tests from InSiTo
Minor documentation updates

Version 1.7.22, 2008-11-17

Add provider preferences to Algorithm_Factory
Fix memory leaks in PBE_PKCS5v20 and get_pbe introduced in 1.7.21
Optimize AES encryption and decryption (about 10% faster)
Enable SSE2 optimized SHA-1 implementation on Intel Prescott CPUs
Fix nanoseconds overflow in benchmark code
Remove Engine::add_engine

Version 1.7.21, 2008-11-11

Make algorithm lookup much more configuable
Add facilities for runtime performance testing of algorithms
Drop use of entropy estimation in the PRNGs
Increase intervals between HMAC_RNG automatic reseeding
Drop InitializerOptions class, all options but thread safety

Version 1.7.20, 2008-11-09

Namespace pkg-config file by major and minor versions
Cache device descriptors in Device_EntropySource
Split base.h into {block_cipher,stream_cipher,mac,hash}.h
Removed get_mgf function from lookup.h

Version 1.7.19, 2008-11-06

Add HMAC_RNG, based on a design by Hugo Krawczyk
Optimized the Turing stream cipher (about 20% faster on x86-64)
Modify Randpool's reseeding algorithm to poll more sources
Add a new AutoSeeded_RNG in auto_rng.h
OpenPGP_S2K changed to take hash object instead of name
Add automatic identification for Intel's Prescott processors

Version 1.7.18, 2008-10-22

Add Doxygen comments from InSiTo
Add ECDSA and ECKAEG benchmarks
Add configure.pl switch --with-tr1-implementation
Fix configure.pl's --with-endian and --with-unaligned-mem options
Added support for pkg-config
Optimize byteswap with x86 inline asm for Visual C++ by Yves Jerschow
Use const references to avoid copying overhead in CurveGFp, GFpModulus

Version 1.7.17, 2008-10-12

Add missing ECDSA object identifiers
Fix error in x86 and x86-64 assembler affecting GF(p) math
Remove Boost dependency from GF(p) math
Modify botan-config to not print -L/usr/lib or -L/usr/local/lib
Add BOTAN_DLL macro to over 30 classes missing it
Rename the two SHA-2 base classes for consistency

Version 1.7.16, 2008-10-09

Add several missing pieces needed for ECDSA and ECKAEG
Add Card Verifiable Certificates from InSiTo
Add SHA-224 from InSiTo
Add BSI variant of EMSA1 from InSiTo
Add GF(p) and ECDSA tests from InSiTo
Split ECDSA and ECKAEG into distinct modules
Allow OpenSSL and GNU MP engines to be built with public key algos disabled
Rename sha256.h to sha2_32.h and sha_64.h to sha2_64.h

Version 1.7.15, 2008-10-07

Add GF(p) arithmetic from InSiTo
Add ECDSA and ECKAEG implementations from InSiTo
Minimize internal dependencies, allowing for smaller build configurations
Add new User Manual and Architecture Guide from FlexSecure GmbH
Alter configure.pl options for better autotools compatibility
Update build instructions for recent changes to configure.pl
Fix CPU detection using /proc/cpuinfo

Version 1.7.14, 2008-09-30

Split library into parts allowing modular builds
Add (very preliminary) CMS support to the main library
Some constructors now require object pointers instead of names
Support multiple implementations of the same algorithm
Build support for Pentium-M processors, from Derek Scherger
Build support for MinGW/MSYS, from Zbigniew Zagorski
Use inline assembly for bswap on 32-bit x86

Version 1.7.13, 2008-09-27

Add SSLv3 MAC, SSLv3 PRF, and TLS v1.0 PRF from Ajisai
Allow all examples to compile even if compression not enabled
Make CMAC's polynomial doubling operation a public class method
Use the -m64 flag when compiling with Sun Forte on x86-64
Clean up and slightly optimize CMAC::final_result

Version 1.7.12, 2008-09-18

Add x86 assembly for Visual Studio C++, by Luca Piccarreta
Add a Perl XS module, by Vaclav Ovsik
Add SWIG-based wrapper for Botan
Add SSE2 implementation of SHA-1, by Dean Gaudet
Remove the BigInt::sig_words cache due to bugs
Combined the 4 Blowfish sboxes, suggested by Yves Jerschow
Changed BigInt::grow_by and BigInt::grow_to to be non-const
Add private assignment operators to classes that don't support assignment
Benchmark RSA encryption and signatures
Added test programs for random_prime and ressol
Add high resolution timers for IA-64, HP-PA, S390x
Reduce use of the RNG during benchmarks
Fix builds on STI Cell PPU
Add support for IBM's XLC compiler
Add IETF 8192 bit MODP group

Version 1.7.11, 2008-09-11

Added the Salsa20 stream cipher
Optimized Montgomery reduction, Karatsuba squaring
Added 16x16->32 word Comba multiplication and squaring
Use a much larger Karatsuba cutoff point
Remove bigint_mul_add_words
Inlined several BigInt functions
Add useful information to the generated build.h
Rename alg_{ia32,amd64} modules to asm_{ia32,amd64}
Fix the Windows build

Version 1.7.10, 2008-09-05

Public key benchmarks run using a selection of random keys
New benchmark timer options are clock_gettime, gettimeofday, times, clock
Including reinterpret_cast optimization for xor_buf in default header
Split byte swapping and word rotation functions into distinct headers
Add IETF modp 6144 group and 2048 and 3072 bit DSS groups
Optimizes BigInt right shift
Add aliases in DL_Group::Format enum
BigInt now caches the significant word count

Version 1.6.5, 2008-08-27

Add noexec stack marker for GNU linker in assembly code
Fix autoconfiguration problem on x86 with GCC 4.2 and 4.3

Version 1.7.9, 2008-08-27

Make clear() in most algorithm base classes a pure virtual
Add noexec stack marker for GNU linker in assembly code
Avoid string operations in ressol
Compilation fixes for MinGW and Visual Studio C++ 2008
Some autoconfiguration fixes for Windows

Version 1.7.8, 2008-07-15

Added the block cipher Noekeon
Remove global deref_alias function
X509_Store takes timeout options as constructor arguments
Add Shanks-Tonelli algorithm, contributed by FlexSecure GmbH
Extend random_prime() for generating primes of any bit length
Remove Config class
Allow adding new entropy via base RNG interface
Reseeding a X9.31 PRNG also reseeds the underlying PRNG

Version 1.7.7, 2008-06-28

Remove the global PRNG object
The PK filter objects were removed
Add a test suite for the ANSI X9.31 PRNG
Much cleaner and (mostly) thread-safe reimplementation of es_ftw
Remove both default arguments to ANSI_X931_RNG's constructor
Remove the randomizing version of OctetString::change
Make the cipher and MAC to use in Randpool configurable
Move RandomNumberGenerator declaration to rng.h
RSA_PrivateKey will not generate keys smaller than 1024 bits
Fix an error decoding BER UNIVERSAL types with special taggings

Version 1.7.6, 2008-05-05

Initial support for Windows DLLs, from Joel Low
Reset the position pointer when a new block is generated in X9.32 PRNG
Timer objects are now treated as entropy sources
Moved several ASN.1-related enums from enums.h to an appropriate header
Removed the AEP module, due to inability to test
Removed Global_RNG and rng.h
Removed system_clock
Removed Library_State::UI and the pulse callback logic

Version 1.7.5, 2008-04-12

The API of X509_CA::sign_request was altered to avoid race conditions
New type Pipe::message_id to represent the Pipe message number
Remove the Named_Mutex_Holder for a small performance gain
Removed several unused or rarely used functions from Config
Ignore spaces inside of a decimal string in BigInt::decode
Allow using a std::istream to initialize a DataSource_Stream object
Fix compilation problem in zlib compression module
The chunk sized used by Pooling_Allocator is now a compile time setting
The size of random blinding factors is now a compile time setting
The install target no longer tries to set a particular owner/group

Version 1.7.4, 2008-03-10

Use unaligned memory read/writes on systems that allow it, for performance
Assembly for x86-64 for accessing the bswap instruction
Use larger buffers in ARC4 and WiderWAKE for significant throughput increase
Unroll loops in SHA-160 for a few percent increase in performance
Fix compilation with GCC 3.2 in es_ftw and es_unix
Build fix for NetBSD systems
Prevent es_dev from being built except on Unix systems

Version 1.6.4, 2008-03-08

Fix a compilation problem with Visual Studio C++ 2003

Version 1.7.3, 2008-01-23

New invocation syntax for configure.pl with several new options
Support for IPv4 addresses in a subject alternative name
New fast poll for the generic Unix entropy source (es_unix)
The es_file entropy source has been replaced by the es_dev module
The malloc allocator does not inherit from Pooling_Allocator anymore
The path that es_unix will search in are now fully user-configurable
Truncate X9.42 PRF output rather than allow counter overflow
PowerPC is now assumed to be big-endian

Version 1.7.2, 2007-10-13

Initialize the global library state lazily
Add plain CBC-MAC for backwards compatibility with old systems
Clean up some of the self test code
Throw a sensible exception if a DL_Group is not found
Truncate KDF2 output rather than allowing counter overflow
Add newly assigned OIDs for SHA-2 and DSA with SHA-224/256
Fix a Visual Studio compilation problem in x509stat.cpp

Version 1.6.3, 2007-07-23

Fix a race condition in the algorithm lookup cache
Fix problems building the memory pool on some versions of Visual C++

Version 1.7.1, 2007-07-23

Fix a race condition in the algorithm object cache
HMAC key schedule optimization
The build header sets a macro defining endianness, if known
New word load/store abstraction allowing further optimization
Modify most of the library to avoid use the C-style casts
Use higher resolution timers in symmetric benchmarks

Version 1.7.0, 2007-05-19

DSA parameter generation now follows FIPS 186-3
Added OIDs for Rabin-Williams and Nyberg-Rueppel
Somewhat better support for out of tree builds
Minor optimizations for RC2 and Tiger
Documentation updates
Update the todo list

Version 1.6.2, 2007-03-24

Fix autodection on Athlon64s running Linux
Fix builds on QNX and compilers using STLport
Remove a call to abort() that crept into production

Version 1.6.1, 2007-01-20

Fix some base64 decoder bugs
Add a new option to base64 encoding, to always append a newline
Fix some build problems under Visual Studio with debug enabled
Fix a bug in BER_Decoder that was triggered under some compilers

Version 1.6.0, 2006-12-17

Minor cleanups versus 1.5.13

Version 1.5.13, 2006-12-10

Compilation fixes for the bzip2, zlib, and GNU MP modules
Better support for Intel C++ and EKOpath C++ on x86-64

Version 1.5.12, 2006-10-27

Cleanups in the initialization routines
Add some x86-64 assembly for multiply-add
Fix problems generating very small (below 384 bit) RSA keys
Support out of tree builds
Bring some of the documentation up to date
More improvements to the Python bindings

Version 1.5.11, 2006-09-10

Removed the Algorithm base class
Various cleanups in the public key inheritance hierarchy
Major overhaul of the configure/build setup
Added x86 assembler implementations of Serpent and low-level MPI code
Optimizations for the SHA-1 x86 assembler
Various improvements to the Python wrappers
Work around a Visual Studio compiler bug

Version 1.5.10, 2006-08-13

Add x86 assembler versions of MD4, MD5, and SHA-1
Expand InitializerOptions' language to support on/off switches
Fix definition of OID 2.5.4.8; was accidentally changed in 1.5.9
Fix possible resource leaks in the mmap allocator
Slightly optimized buffering in MDx_HashFunction
Initialization failures are dealt with somewhat better
Add an example implementing Pollard's Rho algorithm
Better option handling in the test/benchmark tool
Expand the xor_ciph example to support longer keys
Some updates to the documentation

Version 1.5.9, 2006-07-12

Fixed bitrot in the AEP engine
Fix support for marking certificate/CRL extensions as critical
Significant cleanups in the library state / initialization code
LibraryInitializer takes an explicit InitializerOptions object
Make Mutex_Factory an abstract class, add Default_Mutex_Factory
Change configuration access to using global_state()
Add support for global named mutexes throughout the library
Add some STL wrappers for the delete operator
Change how certificates are created to be more flexible and general

Version 1.5.8, 2006-06-23

Many internal cleanups to the X.509 cert/CRL code
Allow for application code to support new X.509 extensions
Change the return type of X509_Certificate::{subject,issuer}_info
Allow for alternate character set handling mechanisms
Fix a bug that was slowing squaring performance somewhat
Fix a very hard to hit overflow bug in the C version of word3_muladd
Minor cleanups to the assembler modules
Disable es_unix module on FreeBSD due to build problem on FreeBSD 6.1
Support for GCC 2.95.x has been dropped in this release

Version 1.5.7, 2006-05-28

Further, major changes to the BER/DER coding system
Updated the Qt mutex module to use Mutex_Factory
Moved the library global state object into an anonymous namespace
Drop the Visual C++ x86 assembly module due to bugs

Version 1.5.6, 2006-03-01

The low-level DER/BER coding system was redesigned and rewritten
Portions of the certificate code were cleaned up internally
Use macros to substantially clean up the GCC assembly code
Added 32-bit x86 assembly for Visual C++ (by Luca Piccarreta)
Avoid a couple of spurious warnings under Visual C++
Some slight cleanups in X509_PublicKey::key_id

Version 1.5.5, 2006-02-04

Fixed a potential infinite loop in the memory pool code (Matt Johnston)
Made Pooling_Allocator::Memory_Block an actual class of sorts
Some small optimizations to the division and modulo computations
Cleaned up the implementation of some of the BigInt operators
Reduced use of dynamic memory allocation in low-level BigInt functions
A few simplifications in the Randpool mixing function
Removed power(), as it was not particularly useful (or fast)
Fixed some annoying bugs in the benchmark code
Added a real credits file

Version 1.5.4, 2006-01-29

Integrated x86 and amd64 assembly code, contributed by Luca Piccarreta
Fixed a memory access off-by-one in the Karatsuba code
Changed Pooling_Allocator's free list search to a log(N) algorithm
Merged ModularReducer with its only subclass, Barrett_Reducer
Fixed sign-handling bugs in some of the division and modulo code
Renamed the module description files to modinfo.txt
Further cleanups in the initialization code
Removed BigInt::add and BigInt::sub
Merged all the division-related functions into just divide()
Modified the <mp_asmi.h> functions to allow for better optimizations
Made the number of bits polled from an EntropySource user configurable
Avoid including <algorithm> in <botan/secmem.h>
Fixed some build problems with Sun Forte
Removed some dead code from bigint_modop
Fix the definition of same_mem

Version 1.5.3, 2006-01-24

Many optimizations in the low-level multiple precision integer code
Added hooks for assembly implementations of the MPI code
Support for the X.509 issuer alternative name extension in new certs
Fixed a bug in the decompression modules; found and patched by Matt Johnston
New Windows mutex module (mux_win32), by Luca Piccarreta
Changed the Windows timer module to use QueryPerformanceCounter
mem_pool.cpp was using std::set iterators instead of std::multiset ones
Fixed a bug in X509_CA preventing users from disabling particular extensions
Fixed the mp_asm64 module, which was entirely broken in 1.5.2
Fixed some module build problems on FreeBSD and Tru64

Version 1.4.12, 2006-01-15

Fixed an off-by-one memory read in MISTY1::key()
Fixed a nasty memory leak in Output_Buffers::retire()
Changed maximum HMAC keylength to 1024 bits
Fixed a build problem in the hardware timer module on 64-bit PowerPC

Version 1.5.2, 2006-01-15

Fixed an off-by-one memory read in MISTY1::key()
Fixed a nasty memory leak in Output_Buffers::retire()
Reimplemented the memory allocator from scratch
Improved memory caching in Montgomery exponentiation
Optimizations for multiple precision addition and subtraction
Fixed a build problem in the hardware timer module on 64-bit PowerPC
Changed default Karatsuba cutoff to 12 words (was 14)
Removed MemoryRegion::bits(), which was unused and incorrect
Changed maximum HMAC keylength to 1024 bits
Various minor Makefile and build system changes
Avoid using std::min in <secmem.h> to bypass Windows libc macro pollution
Switched checks/clock.cpp back to using clock() by default
Enabled the symmetric algorithm tests, which were accidentally off in 1.5.1
Removed the Default_Mutex's unused clone() member function

Version 1.5.1, 2006-01-08

Implemented Montgomery exponentiation
Implemented generalized Karatsuba multiplication and squaring
Implemented Comba squaring for 4, 6, and 8 word inputs
Added new Modular_Exponentiator and Power_Mod classes
Removed FixedBase_Exp and FixedExponent_Exp
Fixed a performance regression in get_allocator introduced in 1.5.0
Engines can now offer S2K algorithms and block cipher padding methods
Merged the remaining global 'algolist' code into Default_Engine
The low-level MPI code is linked as C again
Replaced BigInt's get_nibble with the more general get_substring
Some documentation updates

Version 1.5.0, 2006-01-01

Moved all global/shared library state into a single object
Mutex objects are created through mutex factories instead of a global
Removed ::get_mutex(), ::initialize_mutex(), and Mutex::clone()
Removed the RNG_Quality enum entirely
There is now only a single global-use PRNG
Removed the no_aliases and no_oids options for LibraryInitializer
Removed the deprecated algorithms SEAL, ISAAC, and HAVAL
Change es_ftw to use unbuffered I/O

Version 1.4.11, 2005-12-31

Changed Whirlpool diffusion matrix to match updated algorithm spec
Fixed several engine module build errors introduced in 1.4.10
Fixed two build problems in es_capi; reported by Matthew Gregan
Added a constructor to DataSource_Memory taking a std::string
Placing the same Filter in multiple Pipes triggers an exception
The configure script accepts --docdir and --libdir
Merged doc/rngs.txt into the main API document
Thanks to Joel Low for several bug reports on early tarballs of 1.4.11

Version 1.4.10, 2005-12-18

Added an implementation of KASUMI, the block cipher used in 3G phones
Refactored Pipe; output queues are now managed by a distinct class
Made certain Filter facilities only available to subclasses of Fanout_Filter
There is no longer any overhead in Pipe for a message that has been read out
It is now possible to generate RSA keys as small as 128 bits
Changed some of the core classes to derive from Algorithm as a virtual base
Changed Randpool to use HMAC instead of a plain hash as the mixing function
Fixed a bug in the allocators; found and fixed by Matthew Gregan
Enabled the use of binary file I/O, when requested by the application
The OpenSSL engine's block cipher code was missing some deallocation calls
Disabled the es_ftw module on NetBSD, due to header problems there
Fixed a problem preventing tm_hard from building on MacOS X on PowerPC
Some cleanups for the modules that use inline assembler
config.h is now stored in build/ instead of build/include/botan/
The header util.h was split into bit_ops.h, parsing.h, and util.h
Cleaned up some redundant include directives

Version 1.4.9, 2005-11-06

Added the IBM-created AES candidate algorithm MARS
Added the South Korean block cipher SEED
Added the stream cipher Turing
Added the new hash function FORK-256
Deprecated the ISAAC stream cipher
Twofish and RC6 are significantly faster with GCC
Much better support for 64-bit PowerPC
Added support for high-resolution PowerPC timers
Fixed a bug in the configure script causing problems on FreeBSD
Changed ANSI X9.31 to support arbitrary block ciphers
Make the configure script a bit less noisy
Added more test vectors for some algorithms, including all the AES finalists
Various cosmetic source code cleanups

Version 1.4.8, 2005-10-16

Resolved a bad performance problem in the allocators; fix by Matt Johnston
Worked around a Visual Studio 2003 compilation problem introduced in 1.4.7
Renamed OMAC to CMAC to match the official NIST naming
Added single byte versions of update() to PK_Signer and PK_Verifier
Removed the unused reverse_bits and reverse_bytes functions

Version 1.4.7, 2005-09-25

Fixed major performance problems with recent versions of GNU C++
Added an implementation of the X9.31 PRNG
Removed the X9.17 and FIPS 186-2 PRNG algorithms
Changed defaults to use X9.31 PRNGs as global PRNG objects
Documentation updates to reflect the PRNG changes
Some cleanups related to the engine code
Removed two useless headers, base_eng.h and secalloc.h
Removed PK_Verifier::valid_signature
Fixed configure/build system bugs affecting MacOS X builds
Added support for the EKOPath x86-64 compiler
Added missing destructor for BlockCipherModePaddingMethod
Fix some build problems with Visual C++ 2005 beta
Fix some build problems with Visual C++ 2003 Workshop

Version 1.4.6, 2005-03-13

Fix an error in the shutdown code introduced in 1.4.5
Setting base/pkcs8_tries to 0 disables the builtin fail-out
Support for XMPP identifiers in X.509 certificates
Duplicate entries in X.509 DNs are removed
More fixes for Borland C++, from Friedemann Kleint
Add a workaround for buggy iostreams

Version 1.4.5, 2005-02-26

Add support for AES encryption of private keys
Minor fixes for PBES2 parameter decoding
Internal cleanups for global state variables
GCC 3.x version detection was broken in non-English locales
Work around a Sun Forte bug affecting mem_pool.h
Several fixes for Borland C++ 5.5, from Friedemann Kleint
Removed inclusion of init.h into base.h
Fixed a major bug in reading from certificate stores
Cleaned up a couple of mutex leaks
Removed some left-over debugging code
Removed SSL3_MAC, SSL3_PRF, and TLS_PRF

Version 1.4.4, 2004-12-02

Further tweaks to the pooling allocator
Modified EMSA3 to support SSL/TLS signatures
Changes to support Qt/QCA, from Justin Karneges
Moved mux_qt module code into mod_qt
Fixes for HP-UX from Mike Desjardins

Version 1.4.3, 2004-11-06

Split up SecureAllocator into Allocator and Pooling_Allocator
Memory locking allocators are more likely to be used
Fixed the placement of includes in some modules
Fixed broken installation procedure
Fixes in configure script to support alternate install programs
Modules can specify the minimum version they support

Version 1.4.2, 2004-10-31

Fixed a major CRL handling bug
Cipher and hash operations can be offloaded to engines
Added support for cipher and hash offload in OpenSSL engine
Improvements for 64-bit CPUs without a widening multiply instruction
Support for SHA2-* and Whirlpool with EMSA2
Fixed a long-standing build problem with conflicting include files
Fixed some examples that hadn't been updated for 1.4.x
Portability fixes for Solaris, BSD, HP-UX, and others
Lots of fixes and cleanups in the configure script
Updated the Gentoo ebuild file

Version 1.4.1, 2004-10-10

Fixed major errors in the X.509 and PKCS #8 copy_key functions
Added a LAST_MESSAGE meta-message number for Pipe
Added new aliases (3DES and DES-EDE) for Triple-DES
Added some new functions to PK_Verifier
Cleaned up the KDF interface
Disabled tm_posix on BSD due to header issues
Fixed a build problem on PowerPC with GNU C++ pre-3.4

Version 1.4.0, 2004-06-26

Added the FIPS 186 RNG back
Added copy_key functions for X.509 public keys and PKCS #8 private keys
Fixed PKCS #1 signatures with RIPEMD-128
Moved some code around to avoid warnings with Sun ONE compiler
Fixed a bug in botan-config affecting OpenBSD
Fixed some build problems on Tru64, HP-UX
Fixed compile problems with Intel C++, Compaq C++

Version 1.3.14, 2004-06-12

Added support for AEP's AEP1000/AEP2000 crypto cards
Added a Mutex module using Qt, from Justin Karneges
Added support for engine loading in LibraryInitializer
Tweaked SecureAllocator, giving 20% better performance under heavy load
Added timer and memory locking modules for Win32 (tm_win32, ml_win32)
Renamed PK_Engine to Engine_Core
Improved the Karatsuba cutoff points
Fixes for compiling with GCC 3.4 and Sun C++ 5.5
Fixes for Linux/s390, OpenBSD, and Solaris
Added support for Linux/s390x
The configure script was totally broken for 'generic' OS
Removed Montgomery reduction due to bugs
Removed an unused header, pkcs8alg.h
check --validate returns an error code if any tests failed
Removed duplicate entry in Unix command list for es_unix
Moved the Cert_Usage enumeration into X509_Store
Added new timing methods for PK benchmarks, clock_gettime and RDTSC
Fixed a few minor bugs in the configure script
Removed some deprecated functions from x509cert.h and pkcs10.h
Removed the 'minimal' module, has to be updated for Engine support
Changed MP_WORD_BITS macro to BOTAN_MP_WORD_BITS to clean up namespace
Documentation updates

Version 1.3.13, 2004-05-15

Major fixes for Cygwin builds
Minor MacOS X install fixes
The configure script is a little better at picking the right modules
Removed ml_unix from the 'unix' module set for Cygwin compatibility
Fixed a stupid compile problem in pkcs10.h

Version 1.3.12, 2004-05-02

Added ability to remove old entries from CRLs
Swapped the first two arguments of X509_CA::update_crl()
Added an < operator for MemoryRegion, so it can be used as a std::map key
Changed X.509 searching by DNS name from substring to full string compares
Renamed a few X509_Certificate and PKCS10_Request member functions
Fixed a problem when decoding some PKCS #10 requests
Hex_Decoder would not check inputs, reported by Vaclav Ovsik
Changed default CRL expire time from 30 days to 7 days
X509_CRL's default PEM header is now "X509 CRL", for OpenSSL compatibility
Corrected errors in the API doc, fixes from Ken Perano
More documentation about the Pipe/Filter code

Version 1.3.11, 2004-04-01

Fixed two show-stopping bugs in PKCS10_Request
Added some sanity checks in Pipe/Filter
The DNS and URI entries would get swapped in subjectAlternativeNames
MAC_Filter is now willing to not take a key at creation time
Setting the expiration times of certs and CRLs is more flexible
Fixed problems building on AIX with GCC
Fixed some problems in the tutorial pointed out by Dominik Vogt
Documentation updates

Version 1.3.10, 2004-03-27

Added support for OpenPGP's ASCII armor format
Cleaned up the RNG system; seeding is much more flexible
Added simple autoconfiguration abilities to configure.pl
Fixed a GCC 2.95.x compile problem
Updated the example configuration file
Documentation updates

Version 1.3.9, 2004-03-07

Added an engine using OpenSSL (requires 0.9.7 or later)
X509_Certificate would lose email addresses stored in the DN
Fixed a missing initialization in a BigInt constructor
Fixed several Visual C++ compile problems
Fixed some BeOS build problems
Fixed the WiderWake benchmark

Version 1.3.8, 2003-12-30

Initial introduction of engine support, which separates PK keys from the underlying operations. An engine using GNU MP was added.
DSA, DH, NR, and ElGamal constructors accept taking just the private key again since the public key is easily derived from it.
Montgomery reduction support was added.
ElGamal keys now support being imported/exported as ASN.1 objects
Added Montgomery reductions
Added an engine that uses GNU MP (requires 4.1 or later)
Removed the obsolete mp_gmp module
Moved several initialization/shutdown functions to init.h
Major refactoring of the memory containers
New non-locking container, MemoryVector
Fixed 64-bit problems in BigInt::set_bit/clear_bit
Renamed PK_Key::check_params() to check_key()
Some incompatible changes to OctetString
Added version checking macros in version.h
Removed the fips140 module pending rewrite
Added some functions and hooks to help GUIs
Moved more shared code into MDx_HashFunction
Added a policy hook for specifying the encoding of X.509 strings

Version 1.3.7, 2003-12-12

Fixed a big security problem in es_unix (use of untrusted PATH)
Fixed several stability problems in es_unix
Expanded the list of programs es_unix will try to use
SecureAllocator now only preallocates blocks in special cases
Added a special case in Global_RNG::seed for forcing a full poll
Removed the FIPS 186 RNG added in 1.3.5 pending further testing
Configure updates for PowerPC CPUs
Removed the (never tested) VAX support
Added support for S/390 Linux

Version 1.3.6, 2003-12-07

Added a new module 'minimal', which disables most algorithms
SecureAllocator allocates a few blocks at startup
A few minor MPI cleanups
RPM spec file cleanups and fixes

Version 1.3.5, 2003-11-30

Major improvements in ASN.1 string handling
Added partial support for ASN.1 UTF8 STRINGs and BMP STRINGs
Added partial support for the X.509v3 certificate policies extension
Centralized the handling of character set information
Added FIPS 140-2 startup self tests
Added a module (fips140) for doing extra FIPS 140-2 tests
Added FIPS 186-2 RNG
Improved ASN.1 BIT STRING handling
Removed a memory leak in PKCS10_Request
The encoding of DirectoryString now follows PKIX guidelines
Fixed some of the character set dependencies
Fixed a DER encoding error for tags greater than 30
The BER decoder can now handle tags larger than 30
Fixed tm_hard.cpp to recognize SPARC on more systems
Workarounds for a GCC 2.95.x bug in x509find.cpp
RPM changed to install into /usr instead of /usr/local
Added support for QNX

Version 1.2.8, 2003-11-21

Merged several important bug fixes from 1.3.x

Version 1.3.4, 2003-11-21

Added a module that does certain MPI operations using GNU MP
Added the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman PRF
The Zlib and Bzip2 objects now use custom allocators
Added member functions for directly hashing/MACing SecureVectors
Minor optimizations to the MPI addition and subtraction algorithms
Some cleanups in the low-level MPI code
Created separate AES-{128,192,256} objects

Version 1.3.3, 2003-11-17

The library can now be repeatedly initialized and shutdown without crashing
Fixed an off-by-one error in the CTS code
Fixed an error in the EMSA4 verification code
Fixed a memory leak in mutex.cpp (pointed out by James Widener)
Fixed a memory leak in Pthread_Mutex
Fixed several memory leaks in the testing code
Bulletproofed the EMSA/EME/KDF/MGF retrieval functions
Minor cleanups in SecureAllocator
Removed a needless mutex guarding the (stateless) global timer
Fixed a piece of bash-specific code in botan-config
X.509 objects report more information about decoding errors
Cleaned up some of the exception handling
Updated the example config file with new OIDSs
Moved the build instructions into a separate document, building.tex

Version 1.3.2, 2003-11-13

Fixed a bug preventing DSA signatures from verifying on X.509 objects
Made the X509_Store search routines more efficient and flexible
Added a function to X509_PublicKey to do easy public/private key matching
Added support for decoding indefinite length BER data
Changed Pipe's peek() to take an offset
Removed Filter::set_owns in favor of the new incr_owns function
Removed BigInt::zero() and BigInt::one()
Renamed the PEM related options from base/pem_* to pem/*
Added an option to specify the line width when encoding PEM
Removed the "rng/safe_longterm" option; it's always on now
Changed the cipher used for RNG super-encryption from ARC4 to WiderWake4+1
Cleaned up the base64/hex encoders and decoders
Added an ASN.1/BER decoder as an example
AES had its internals marked 'public' in previous versions
Changed the value of the ASN.1 NO_OBJECT enum
Various new hacks in the configure script
Removed the already nominal support for SunOS

Version 1.3.1, 2003-11-04

Generalized a few pieces of the DER encoder
PKCS8::load_key would fail if handed an unencrypted key
Added a failsafe so PKCS #8 key decoding can't go into an infinite loop

Version 1.3.0, 2003-11-02

Major redesign of the PKCS #8 private key import/export system
Added a small amount of UI interface code for getting passphrases
Added heuristics that tell if a key, cert, etc is stored as PEM or BER
Removed CS-Cipher, SHARK, ThreeWay, MD5-MAC, and EMAC
Removed certain deprecated constructors of RSA, DSA, DH, RW, NR
Made PEM decoding more forgiving of extra text before the header

Version 1.2.7, 2003-10-31

Added support for reading configuration files
Added constructors so NR and RW keys can be imported easily
Fixed mp_asm64, which was completely broken in 1.2.6
Removed tm_hw_ia32 module; replaced by tm_hard
Added support for loading certain oddly formed RSA certificates
Fixed spelling of NON_REPUDIATION enum
Renamed the option default_to_ca to v1_assume_ca
Fixed a minor bug in X.509 certificate generation
Fixed a latent bug in the OID lookup code
Updated the RPM spec file
Added to the tutorial

Version 1.2.6, 2003-07-04

Major performance increase for PK algorithms on most 64-bit systems
Cleanups in the low-level MPI code to support asm implementations
Fixed build problems with some versions of Compaq's C++ compiler
Removed useless constructors for NR public and private keys
Removed support for the patch_file directive in module files
Removed several deprecated functions

Version 1.2.5, 2003-06-22

Fixed a tricky and long-standing memory leak in Pipe
Major cleanups and fixes in the memory allocation system
Removed alloc_mlock, which has been superseded by the ml_unix module
Removed a denial of service vulnerability in X509_Store
Fixed compilation problems with VS .NET 2003 and Codewarrior 8
Added another variant of PKCS8::load_key, taking a memory buffer
Fixed various minor/obscure bugs which occurred when MP_WORD_BITS != 32
BigInt::operator%=(word) was a no-op if the input was a power of 2
Fixed portability problems in BigInt::to_u32bit
Fixed major bugs in SSL3-MAC
Cleaned up some messes in the PK algorithms
Cleanups and extensions for OMAC and EAX
Made changes to the entropy estimation function
Added a 'beos' module set for use on BeOS
Officially deprecated a few X509:: and PKCS8:: functions
Moved the contents of primes.h to numthry.h
Moved the contents of x509opt.h to x509self.h
Removed the (empty) desx.h header
Documentation updates

Version 1.2.4, 2003-05-29

Fixed a bug in EMSA1 affecting NR signature verification
Fixed a few latent bugs in BigInt related to word size
Removed an unused function, mp_add2_nc, from the MPI implementation
Reorganized the core MPI files

Version 1.2.3, 2003-05-20

Fixed a bug that prevented DSA/NR key generation
Fixed a bug that prevented importing some root CA certs
Fixed a bug in the BER decoder when handing optional bit or byte strings
Fixed the encoding of authorityKeyIdentifier in X509_CA
Added a sanity check in PBKDF2 for zero length passphrases
Added versions of X509::load_key and PKCS8::load_key that take a file name
X509_CA generates 128 bit serial numbers now
Added tests to check PK key generation
Added a simplistic X.509 CA example
Cleaned up some of the examples

Version 1.2.2, 2003-05-13

Add checks to prevent any BigInt bugs from revealing an RSA or RW key
Changed the interface of Global_RNG::seed
Major improvements for the es_unix module
Added another Win32 entropy source, es_win32
The Win32 CryptoAPI entropy source can now poll multiple providers
Improved the BeOS entropy source
Renamed pipe_unixfd module to fd_unix
Fixed a file descriptor leak in the EGD module
Fixed a few locking bugs

Version 1.2.1, 2003-05-06

Added ANSI X9.23 compatible CBC padding
Added an entropy source using Win32 CryptoAPI
Removed the Pipe I/O operators taking a FILE*
Moved the BigInt encoding/decoding functions into the BigInt class
Integrated several fixes for VC++ 7 (from Hany Greiss)
Fixed the configure.pl script for Windows builds

Version 1.2.0, 2003-04-28

Tweaked the Karatsuba cut-off points
Increased the allowed keylength of HMAC and Blowfish
Removed the 'mpi_ia32' module, pending rewrite
Workaround a GCC 2.95.x bug in eme1.cpp

Version 1.1.13, 2003-04-22

Added OMAC
Added EAX authenticated cipher mode
Diffie-Hellman would not do blinding in some cases
Optimized the OFB and CTR modes
Corrected Skipjack's word ordering, as per NIST clarification
Support for all subject/issuer attribute types required by RFC 3280
The removeFromCRL CRL reason code is now handled correctly
Increased the flexibility of the allocators
Renamed Rijndael to AES, created aes.h, deleted rijndael.h
Removed support for the 'no_timer' LibraryInitializer option
Removed 'es_pthr' module, pending further testing
Cleaned up get_ciph.cpp

Version 1.1.12, 2003-04-15

Fixed a ASN.1 string encoding bug
Fixed a pair of X509_DN encoding problems
Base64_Decoder and Hex_Decoder can now validate input
Removed support for the LibraryInitializer option 'egd_path'
Added tests for DSA X.509 and PKCS #8 key formats
Removed a long deprecated feature of DH_PrivateKey's constructor
Updated the RPM .spec file
Major documentation updates

Version 1.1.11, 2003-04-07

Added PKCS #10 certificate requests
Changed X509_Store searching interface to be more flexible
Added a generic Certificate_Store interface
Added a function for generating self-signed X.509 certs
Cleanups and changes to X509_CA
New examples for PKCS #10 and self-signed certificates
Some documentation updates

Version 1.1.10, 2003-04-03

X509_CA can now generate new X.509 CRLs
Added blinding for RSA, RW, DH, and ElGamal to prevent timing attacks
More certificate and CRL extensions/attributes are supported
Better DN handling in X.509 certificates/CRLs
Added a DataSink hierarchy (suggested by Jim Darby)
Consolidated SecureAllocator and ManagedAllocator
Many cleanups and generalizations
Added a (slow) pthreads based EntropySource
Fixed some threading bugs

Version 1.1.9, 2003-02-25

Added support for using X.509v2 CRLs
Fixed several bugs in the path validation algorithm
Certificates can be verified for a particular usage
Algorithm for comparing distinguished names now follows X.509
Cleaned up the code for the es_beos, es_ftw, es_unix modules
Documentation updates

Version 1.1.8, 2003-01-29

Fixes for the certificate path validation algorithm in X509_Store
Fixed a bug affecting X509_Certificate::is_ca_cert()
Added a general configuration interface for policy issues
Cleanups and API changes in the X.509 CA, cert, and store code
Made various options available for X509_CA users
Changed X509_Time's interface to work around time_t problems
Fixed a theoretical weakness in Randpool's entropy mixing function
Fixed problems compiling with GCC 2.95.3 and GCC 2.96
Fixed a configure bug (reported by Jon Wilson) affecting MinGW

Version 1.0.2, 2003-01-12

Fixed an obscure SEGFAULT causing bug in Pipe
Fixed an obscure but dangerous bug in SecureVector::swap

Version 1.1.7, 2003-01-12

Fixed an obscure but dangerous bug in SecureVector::swap
Consolidated SHA-384 and SHA-512 to save code space
Added SSL3-MAC and SSL3-PRF
Documentation updates, including a new tutorial

Version 1.1.6, 2002-12-10

Initial support for X.509v3 certificates and CAs
Major redesign/rewrite of the ASN.1 encoding/decoding code
Added handling for DSA/NR signatures encoded as DER SEQUENCEs
Documented the generic cipher lookup interface
Added an (untested) entropy source for BeOS
Various cleanups and bug fixes

Version 1.1.5, 2002-11-17

Added the discrete logarithm integrated encryption system (DLIES)
Various optimizations for BigInt
Added support for assembler optimizations in modules
Added BigInt x86 optimizations module (mpi_ia32)

Version 1.1.4, 2002-11-10

Speedup of 15-30% for PK algorithms
Implemented the PBES2 encryption scheme
Fixed a potential bug in decoding RSA and RW private keys
Changed the DL_Group class interface to handle different formats better
Added support for PKCS #3 encoded DH parameters
X9.42 DH parameters use a PEM label of 'X942 DH PARAMETERS'
Added key pair consistency checking
Fixed a compatibility problem with gcc 2.96 (pointed out by Hany Greiss)
A botan-config script is generated at configure time
Documentation updates

Version 1.1.3, 2002-11-03

Added a generic public/private key loading interface
Fixed a small encoding bug in RSA, RW, and DH
Changed the PK encryption/decryption interface classes
ECB supports using padding methods
Added a function-based interface for library initialization
Added support for RIPEMD-128 and Tiger PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures
The cipher mode benchmarks now use 128-bit AES instead of DES
Removed some obsolete typedefs
Removed OpenCL support (opencl.h, the OPENCL_* macros, etc)
Added tests for PKCS #8 encoding/decoding
Added more tests for ECB and CBC

Version 1.1.2, 2002-10-21

Support for PKCS #8 encoded RSA, DSA, and DH private keys
Support for Diffie-Hellman X.509 public keys
Major reorganization of how X.509 keys are handled
Added PKCS #5 v2.0's PBES1 encryption scheme
Added a generic cipher lookup interface
Added the WiderWake4+1 stream cipher
Added support for sync-able stream ciphers
Added a 'paranoia level' option for the LibraryInitializer
More security for RNG output meant for long term keys
Added documentation for some of the new 1.1.x features
CFB's feedback argument is now specified in bits
Renamed CTR class to CTR_BE
Updated the RSA and DSA examples to use X.509 and PKCS #8 key formats

Version 1.1.1, 2002-10-15

Added the Korean hash function HAS-160
Partial support for RSA and DSA X.509 public keys
Added a mostly functional BER encoder/decoder
Added support for non-deterministic MAC functions
Initial support for PEM encoding/decoding
Internal cleanups in the PK algorithms
Several new convenience functions in Pipe
Fixed two nasty bugs in Pipe
Messed with the entropy sources for es_unix
Discrete logarithm groups are checked for safety more closely now
For compatibility with GnuPG, ElGamal now supports DSA-style groups

Version 1.0.1, 2002-09-14

Fixed a minor bug in Randpool::random()
Added some new aliases and typedefs for 1.1.x compatibility
The 4096-bit RSA benchmark key was decimal instead of hex
EMAC was returning an incorrect name

Version 1.1.0, 2002-09-14

Added entropy estimation to the RNGs
Improved the overall design of both Randpool and ANSI_X917_RNG
Added a separate RNG for nonce generation
Added window exponentiation support in power_mod
Added a get_s2k function and the PKCS #5 S2K algorithms
Added the TLSv1 PRF
Replaced BlockCipherModeIV typedef with InitializationVector class
Renamed PK_Key_Agreement_Scheme to PK_Key_Agreement
Renamed SHA1 -> SHA_160 and SHA2_x -> SHA_x
Added support for RIPEMD-160 PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures
Changed the key agreement scheme interface
Changed the S2K and KDF interfaces
Better SCAN compatibility for HAVAL, Tiger, MISTY1, SEAL, RC5, SAFER-SK
Added support for variable-pass Tiger
Major speedup for Rabin-Williams key generation

Version 1.0.0, 2002-08-26

Octal I/O of BigInt is now supported
Fixed portability problems in the es_egd module
Generalized IV handling in the block cipher modes
Added Karatsuba multiplication and k-ary exponentiation
Fixed a problem in the multiplication routines

Version 0.9.2, 2002-08-18

DH_PrivateKey::public_value() was returning the wrong value
Various BigInt optimizations
The filters.h header now includes hex.h and base64.h
Moved Counter mode to ctr.h
Fixed a couple minor problems with VC++ 7
Fixed problems with the RPM spec file

Version 0.9.1, 2002-08-10

Grand rename from OpenCL to Botan
Major optimizations for the PK algorithms
Added ElGamal encryption
Added Whirlpool
Tweaked memory allocation parameters
Improved the method of seeding the global RNG
Moved pkcs1.h to eme_pkcs.h
Added more test vectors for some algorithms
Fixed error reporting in the BigInt tests
Removed Default_Timer, it was pointless
Added some new example applications
Removed some old examples that weren't that interesting
Documented the compression modules

Version 0.9.0, 2002-08-03

EMSA4 supports variable salt size
PK_* can take a string naming the encoding method to use
Started writing some internals documentation

Version 0.8.7, 2002-07-30

Fixed bugs in EME1 and EMSA4
Fixed a potential crash at shutdown
Cipher modes returned an ill-formed name
Removed various deprecated types and headers
Cleaned up the Pipe interface a bit
Minor additions to the documentation
First stab at a Visual C++ makefile (doc/Makefile.vc7)

Version 0.8.6, 2002-07-25

Added EMSA4 (aka PSS)
Brought the manual up to date; many corrections and additions
Added a parallel hash function construction
Lookup supports all available algorithms now
Lazy initialization of the lookup tables
Made more discrete logarithm groups available through get_dl_group()
StreamCipher_Filter supports seeking (if the underlying cipher does)
Minor optimization for GCD calculations
Renamed SAFER_SK128 to SAFER_SK
Removed many previously deprecated functions
Some now-obsolete functions, headers, and types have been deprecated
Fixed some bugs in DSA prime generation
DL_Group had a constructor for DSA-style prime gen but it wasn't defined
Reversed the ordering of the two arguments to SEAL's constructor
Fixed a threading problem in the PK algorithms
Fixed a minor memory leak in lookup.cpp
Fixed pk_types.h (it was broken in 0.8.5)
Made validation tests more verbose
Updated the check and example applications

Version 0.8.5, 2002-07-21

Major changes to constructors for DL-based cryptosystems (DSA, NR, DH)
Added a DL_Group class
Reworking of the pubkey internals
Support in lookup for aliases and PK algorithms
Renamed CAST5 to CAST_128 and CAST256 to CAST_256
Added EMSA1
Reorganization of header files
LibraryInitializer will install new allocator types if requested
Fixed a bug in Diffie-Hellman key generation
Did a workaround in pipe.cpp for GCC 2.95.x on Linux
Removed some debugging code from init.cpp that made FTW ES useless
Better checking for invalid arguments in the PK algorithms
Reduced Base64 and Hex default line length (if line breaking is used)
Fixes for HP's aCC compiler
Cleanups in BigInt

Version 0.8.4, 2002-07-14

Added Nyberg-Rueppel signatures
Added Diffie-Hellman key exchange (kex interface is subject to change)
Added KDF2
Enhancements to the lookup API
Many things formerly taking pointers to algorithms now take names
Speedups for prime generation
LibraryInitializer has support for seeding the global RNG
Reduced SAFER-SK128 memory consumption
Reversed the ordering of public and private key values in DSA constructor
Fixed serious bugs in MemoryMapping_Allocator
Fixed memory leak in Lion
FTW_EntropySource was not closing the files it read
Fixed line breaking problem in Hex_Encoder

Version 0.8.3, 2002-06-09

Added DSA and Rabin-Williams signature schemes
Added EMSA3
Added PKCS#1 v1.5 encryption padding
Added Filters for PK algorithms
Added a Keyed_Filter class
LibraryInitializer processes arguments now
Major revamp of the PK interface classes
Changed almost all of the Filters for non-template operation
Changed HMAC, Lion, Luby-Rackoff to non-template classes
Some fairly minor BigInt optimizations
Added simple benchmarking for PK algorithms
Added hooks for fixed base and fixed exponent modular exponentiation
Added some examples for using RSA
Numerous bugfixes and cleanups
Documentation updates

Version 0.8.2, 2002-05-18

Added an (experimental) algorithm lookup interface
Added code for directly testing BigInt
Added SHA2-384
Optimized SHA2-512
Major optimization for Adler32 (thanks to Dan Nicolaescu)
Various minor optimizations in BigInt and related areas
Fixed two bugs in X9.19 MAC, both reported by Darren Starsmore
Fixed a bug in BufferingFilter
Made a few fixes for MacOS X
Added a workaround in configure.pl for GCC 2.95.x
Better support for PowerPC, ARM, and Alpha
Some more cleanups

Version 0.8.1, 2002-05-06

Major code cleanup (check doc/deprecated.txt)
Various bugs fixed, including several portability problems
Renamed MessageAuthCode to MessageAuthenticationCode
A replacement for X917 is in x917_rng.h
Changed EMAC to non-template class
Added ANSI X9.19 compatible CBC-MAC
TripleDES now supports 128 bit keys

Version 0.8.0, 2002-04-24

Merged BigInt: many bugfixes and optimizations since alpha2
Added RSA (rsa.h)
Added EMSA2 (emsa2.h)
Lots of new interface code for public key algorithms (pk_base.h, pubkey.h)
Changed some interfaces, including SymmetricKey, to support the global rng
Fixed a serious bug in ManagedAllocator
Renamed RIPEMD128 to RIPEMD_128 and RIPEMD160 to RIPEMD_160
Removed some deprecated stuff
Added a global random number generator (rng.h)
Added clone functions to most of the basic algorithms
Added a library initializer class (init.h)
Version macros in version.h
Moved the base classes from opencl.h to base.h
Renamed the bzip2 module to comp_bzip2 and zlib to comp_zlib
Documentation updates for the new stuff (still incomplete)
Many new deprecated things: check doc/deprecated.txt

Version 0.7.10, 2002-04-07

Added EGD_EntropySource module (es_egd)
Added a file tree walking EntropySource (es_ftw)
Added MemoryLocking_Allocator module (alloc_mlock)
Renamed the pthr_mux, unix_rnd, and mmap_mem modules
Changed timer mechanism; the clock method can be switched on the fly.
Renamed MmapDisk_Allocator to MemoryMapping_Allocator
Renamed ent_file.h to es_file.h (ent_file.h is around, but deprecated)
Fixed several bugs in MemoryMapping_Allocator
Added more default sources for Unix_EntropySource
Changed SecureBuffer to use same allocation methods as SecureVector
Added bigint_divcore into mp_core to support BigInt alpha2 release
Removed some Pipe functions deprecated since 0.7.8
Some fixes for the configure program

Version 0.7.9, 2002-03-19

Memory allocation substantially revamped
Added memory allocation method based on mmap(2) in the mmap_mem module
Added ECB and CTS block cipher modes (ecb.h, cts.h)
Added a Mutex interface (mutex.h)
Added module pthr_mux, implementing the Mutex interface
Added Threaded Filter interface (thr_filt.h)
All algorithms can now by keyed with SymmetricKey objects
More testing occurs with --validate (expected failures)
Fixed two bugs reported by Hany Greiss, in Luby-Rackoff and RC6
Fixed a buffering bug in Bzip_Decompress and Zlib_Decompress
Made X917 safer (and about 1/3 as fast)
Documentation updates

Version 0.7.8, 2002-02-28

More capabilities for Pipe, inspired by SysV STREAMS, including peeking,

better buffering, and stack ops. NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE: SEE DOCUMENTATION
Added a BufferingFilter class
Added popen() based EntropySource for generic Unix systems (unix_rnd)
Moved 'devrand' module into main distribution (ent_file.h), renamed to

File_EntropySource, and changed interface somewhat.
Made Randpool somewhat more conservative and also 25% faster
Minor fixes and updates for the configure script
Added some tweaks for memory allocation
Documentation updates for the new Pipe interface
Fixed various minor bugs
Added a couple of new example programs (stack and hasher2)

Version 0.7.7, 2001-11-24

Filter::send now works in the constructor of a Filter subclass
You may now have to include <opencl/pipe.h> explicitly in some code
Added preliminary PK infrastructure classes in pubkey.h and pkbase.h
Enhancements to SecureVector (append, destroy functions)
New infrastructure for secure memory allocation
Added IEEE P1363 primitives MGF1, EME1, KDF1
Rijndael optimizations and cleanups
Changed CipherMode<B> to BlockCipherMode(B*)
Fixed a nasty bug in pipe_unixfd
Added portions of the BigInt code into the main library
Support for VAX, SH, POWER, PowerPC-64, Intel C++

Version 0.7.6, 2001-10-14

Fixed several serious bugs in SecureVector created in 0.7.5
Square optimizations
Fixed shared objects on MacOS X and HP-UX
Fixed static libs for KCC 4.0; works with KCC 3.4g as well
Full support for Athlon and K6 processors using GCC
Added a table of prime numbers < 2**16 (primes.h)
Some minor documentation updates

Version 0.7.5, 2001-08-19

Split checksum.h into adler32.h, crc24.h, and crc32.h
Split modes.h into cbc.h, cfb.h, and ofb.h
CBC_wPadding* has been replaced by CBC_Encryption and CBC_Decryption
Added OneAndZeros and NoPadding methods for CBC
Added Lion, a very fast block cipher construction
Added an S2K base class (s2k.h) and an OpenPGP_S2K class (pgp_s2k.h)
Basic types (ciphers, hashes, etc) know their names now (call name())
Changed the EntropySource type somewhat
Big speed-ups for ISAAC, Adler32, CRC24, and CRC32
Optimized CAST-256, DES, SAFER-SK, Serpent, SEAL, MD2, and RIPEMD-160
Some semantics of SecureVector have changed slightly
The mlock module has been removed for the time being
Added string handling functions for hashes and MACs
Various non-user-visible cleanups
Shared library soname is now set to the full version number

Version 0.7.4, 2001-07-15

New modules: Zlib, gettimeofday and x86 RTC timers, Unix I/O for Pipe
Fixed a vast number of errors in the config script/makefile/specfile
Pipe now has a stdio(3) interface as well as C++ iostreams
ARC4 supports skipping the first N bytes of the cipher stream (ala MARK4)
Bzip2 supports decompressing multiple concatenated streams, and flushing
Added a simple 'overall average' score to the benchmarks
Fixed a small bug in the POSIX timer module
Removed a very-unlikely-to-occur bug in most of the hash functions
filtbase.h now includes <iosfwd>, not <iostream>
Minor documentation updates

Version 0.7.3, 2001-06-08

Fix build problems on Solaris/SPARC
Fix build problems with Perl versions < 5.6
Fixed some stupid code that broke on a few compilers
Added string handling functions to Pipe
MISTY1 optimizations

Version 0.7.2, 2001-06-03

Build system supports modules
Added modules for mlock, a /dev/random EntropySource, POSIX1.b timers
Added Bzip2 compression filter, contributed by Peter Jones
GNU make no longer required (tested with 4.4BSD pmake and Solaris make)
Fixed minor bug in several of the hash functions
Various other minor fixes and changes
Updates to the documentation

Version 0.7.1, 2001-05-16

Rewrote configure script: more consistent and complete
Made it easier to find out parameters of types at run time (opencl.h)
New functions for finding the version being used (version.h)
New SymmetricKey interface for Filters (symkey.h)
InvalidKeyLength now records what the invalid key length was
Optimized DES, CS-Cipher, MISTY1, Skipjack, XTEA
Changed GOST to use correct S-box ordering (incompatible change)
Benchmark code was almost totally rewritten
Many more entries in the test vector file
Fixed minor and idiotic bug in check.cpp

Version 0.7.0, 2001-03-01

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